Harriet Martineau

Harriet was a Unitarian, a social activist.. and writer. She was born to a family of Unitarians who were well to do and used their position to do good. She supported herself as a writer, and bought a property in the North where she was visited by Charlotte Bronte who was a friend for a time, Charlotte noted that the local gentry did not like her because of her radical views, but the poor admired her. However, she was an atheist as well which shocked the religous Charlotte. She visited America, where she was critical of slavery. She and Charlotte had a dispute over her disliking Charlotte's novel Villette.