Writer Harriet Martineau, for example, wrote dubiously that, " the master presupposes his little pupils possessed of all truth ; and that his business is to bring it out into expression ".

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

Despite the pragmatism of classical economists, their views were expressed in dogmatic terms by such popular writers as Jane Marcet and Harriet Martineau.

The people whom the young woman met at the Brays ' house included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

* 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English theorist and writer ( d. 1876 )

Many highly educated amateurs now also travelled to Egypt, however, including women such as Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, who both left fascinatingly philosophical accounts of their travels, which revealed learned familiarity with all the latest European Egyptology.

His concept of sociologie and social evolutionism, though now outdated, set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists such as Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology presented by Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social research.

Although Comte's English followers, including George Eliot and Harriet Martineau, for the most part rejected the full gloomy panoply of his system, they liked the idea of a religion of humanity and his injunction to " vivre pour autrui " (" live for others "), from which comes the word " altruism ".

* Auguste Comte, Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Part I ( 1855 ), translated by Harriet Martineau, Kessinger Publishing, Paperback, 2003 ; Also available from the McMaster Archive for the History of Economic Thought, Volume One Volume Two Volume Three

* The positive philosophy, Auguste Comte / freely translated and selected by Harriet Martineau Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection.

He was born in Norwich, the seventh child of Thomas Martineau and Elizabeth Rankin, the sixth, his senior by almost three years, being his sister Harriet, the writer and pioneer sociologist.

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His mother is Carol Newcomb ( née Martineau, born 1930 ), who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 and had a double mastectomy.

It belonged to the Roach and Blanton families ; the major part of the area selected was on the property owned by Mrs. Harriet Blanton Theobald.

Stone and Anthony selected prominent women's rights activists to form the two committees: representing the NWSA would be May Wright Sewall, Rachel Foster, Clara Colby, Olympia Brown, Laura Johns and Harriet Shattuck ; the AWSA group was to be Alice Stone Blackwell, William Dudley Foulke, Julia Ward Howe, Hannah Tracy Cutler, Mary Thomas, Margaret Campbell, and Anna Howard Shaw.

He was selected on January 8, 2007 by President George W. Bush to replace outgoing White House Counsel Harriet Miers.

Harriet Page Young, wife of Lorenzo Young, was the first woman selected for the company.

He selected seven warships for the expedition:, Cumberland, Susquehanna, Wabash, Pawnee, Monticello, and Harriet Lane.

Harriet, herself a victim of poison-pen letters ever since her trial, reluctantly agrees to help, and spends much of the next few months resident at the college, ostensibly to do research on Sheridan Le Fanu and assist a don with her book.

* A translation of the letters of Gerbert ( 982 – 987 ) with introduction and notes, Harriet Pratt Lattin, tr., Columbus, OH, H. L. Hedrick, 1932.

He knew that Harriet had children and was living in Maryland, but she and Beverly stopped responding to his letters and they lost touch.

In May 2007, Harriet Swift, an anti-logging activist from New South Wales was convicted and reprimanded for contempt of Parliament, after she wrote fictitious press releases and letters purporting to be Federal MP Gary Nairn as an April Fools ' Day prank.

Another friend, Harriet Winslow Sewall, arranged Child's letters for publication after her death.

These are just two quotes from the recently published love letters between Sir Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen.

Harriet Cohen's recently published letters reveal the turbulence and anguish of the relationship.

Harriet Cohen is highly likely to have been one of these, as various letters from her private collection and interviews suggest.

Friends comfortably furnished his cell, and he received letters and several hundred visitors including both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman.

When the Dorchester County sheriff searched Green's house, he found the letters from Samuel Jr. naming Jackson and Bailey, two slaves who had escaped to Canada with Harriet Tubman.