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- DictionaryMartineau, Harriet/ˈmɑːtɪnəʊ/
- 1. (1802–76), English writer. She wrote mainly on social, economic, and historical subjects, and is known for her twenty-five-volume series Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–4) and her translation of Auguste Comte's Philosophie positive (1853).
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