Female : Writer, Journalist (may have been the first female journalist) & Novelist. Involved in Unitarian Movement. Remained single. Deaf, plus no sense of smell or taste. Contributed to the Edinburgh Review and wrote over 1600 articles for the Daily News (1851-1866). From 1845 until her death she lived in Ambleside

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Norwich, Norfolk

Date of Birth : 1802 Date of Death : 1876 Age : 74

1823-1835
Devotional Exercises for Young Persons (1823)
(Ed) Traditions of Palestine (1830 Longmans 6/-)
Five Years of Youth (1831)
Essential Faith of the Universal Church (1831)
The Faith as Unfolded by Many Prophets (1832)
Providence Manifested Through Israel (1832)
Illustrations of Political Economy (1832 London. 3rd Ed) - 13 vols
Illustrations of Political Economy (1834 Charles Fox, London) - 9 vols
Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated (1833)
Illustrations of Taxation, in Six Parts (1834 Charles Fox) - 4 vols

1836-1845
Society in America (1837 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols
Addresses : with Prayers and Original Hymns (1838)
Retrospect of Western Travel (1838 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £360
(1838 Harper - 2 vols)
How to Observe : Morals and Manners (1838 Charles Knight, London)
Deerbrook (1839 Moxon) - 3 vols
The Hour and the Man : An Historical Romance (1840) (1841 Harper NY) - 2 vols
The Crofton Boys : A Tale (1841 Charles Knight, The Playfellow Vol 4)
[Probably the first public school story]
Feats on the Fiord (1841) - children
The Settlers at Home (1841 Charles Knight, London)
Life in the Sick Room (1843)
Letters on Mesmerism (1845 Moxon)
Dawn Island : A Tale (1845 J Gadsby, Manchester)
Forest and Game-Law Tales (1845-6 Moxon, London) - 3 vols

1846-1856
The Billow and the Rock (1846)
Eastern Life : Present and Past (1848) (1848 Lea & Blanchard, Phila)
Household Education (1849 Moxon)
The History of England During the Thirty years' Peace 1816-46 (1849-50 Charles Knight) - 2 vols
Guide to Windermere (c1850 John Garnett, Windermere)
Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development (1851) - with H G Atkinson
Introduction to the History of the Peace (1851)
Merdhen; The Manor and the Eyrie; & Old Landmarks and Old Laws (1852)
Letters from Ireland : reprinted from the 'Daily News' (1853 London)
(Trans) Comte's "Philosophy" (1853)
A Complete Guide to the English Lakes (1855 PP, John Garnett, Windermere)
(1865 Garnett, London. 3rd Ed enlarged by Maria Martineau)
The Factory Controversy : A Warning Against Legislation
(1855 Nat Assoc of Factory Occupiers, Manchester)
The Crofton Boys : A Tale (1856 Routledge) - first separate book edition
Sketches from Life (1856 Whittaker, London)

1857-1870
Corporate Traditions and National Rights (1857)
Guide to Keswick and its Environs (1857 Windermere)
British Rule in India : A Historical Sketch (1857 Smith Elder)
Suggestions Towards the Future Good of East India (1858)
The English Lakes, Illustrated with Steel Engravings, woodcuts by W J Linton, Outlines
of the Mountains, and a Map Geologically coloured by J Ruthven (1858 Windermere)
A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, Illustrated from Drawings by T L Aspland and W Banks,
and a Map, Coloured Geologically by J Ruthven (1858 Windermere. 2nd Ed)
England and Her Soldiers (1859 Smith Elder)
Health, Husbandry and Handicraft (1861 Bradbury & Evans)
Biographical Sketches (1869 Macmillan)

After 1871
The Tourist's Atlas of the Lake District of England (1875 Windermere)
Autobiography (with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman) (1877 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
(1877 Osgood, Boston) - 2 vols
The History of the Lake District (c1880 John Garnett, Windermere)
The Hampdens : An Historiette (1880 Routledge) - J E Millais
Feats on the Fjord : A Tale (1899 Dent) - Arthur Rackham
Feats on the Fiord (1924 Macmillan) - Boris Artzybasheff

READING
(Ed) Maria Weston Chapman : Life of Harriet Martineau (1877)
Florence Fenwick Miller : Harriet Martineau (1884 W H Allen Eminent Women Series)
Vera Wheatley : The Life & Work of Harriet Martineau (1957 Secker & Warburg)