Illustrations of Political Economy: 8 Volumes No. I: Live in the Wilds: a Tale; No. III: Brooke and Brooke Farm; No. VI: Weal and Woe in Garveloch: a Tale; No. XII: French Wines and Politics: a Tale; No. XIV: Berkeley the Banker. Part I: a Tale; No. XV: Berkeley the Banker. Part II: a Tale

E-333. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 16mo. Published by Leonard C Bowles, Boston, MA. 1832-33. 8 Volumes. Bound in cloth boards with title label present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are faded and worn, with bumped and scuffed boards and spine ends). No ownership marks present. Foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Lot Consists of: No. I: Live in the Wilds: A Tale; No. III: Brooke and Brooke Farm; No. VI: Weal and Woe in Garveloch: A Tale; No. XII: French Wines and Politics: A Tale; No. XIV: Berkeley The Banker. Part I: A Tale; No. XV: Berkeley The Banker. Part II: A Tale; No. XVI: Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek; No. XVII: The Loom and the Lugger. Part I: A Tale. Harriet Martineau 12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... Less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation." Harriet's first commissioned book, Illustrations of Political Economy, was a fictional tutorial intended to help the general public understand the ideas of Adam Smith. Illustrations was published in February 1832 in an edition of just 1500 copies, since the publisher assumed it would not sell well. Yet it very quickly became highly successful, and would steadily out-sell the work of Charles Dickens. Illustrations was her first work to receive widespread acclaim, and its success served to spread the free-market ideas of Adam Smith and others throughout the British Empire. Martineau then agreed to compose a series of similar monthly stories over a period of two years, the work being hastened by having her brother James also work on the series with her. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .