Harriet Martineau wrote in the mid-nineteenth century when new disciplines and areas of knowledge were being established. Reflecting her prodigious achievements, this volume explores her influence on emerging fields such as economics, sociology, history, education, science, economics, childhood, the status of women, disability studies, journalism, travel writing, life-writing, and letter writing. This wide-ranging collection confirms her place as one of the leading intellectuals, cultural theorists and commentators of the nineteenth century. > One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction and nonfiction; books, articles and pamphlets; popular travel books and more insightful analyses. Martineau wrote in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, at a time when new disciplines a.