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Harriet Martineau: gender, national identity, and the contemporary historian

This article explores the publication history of Harriet Martineau's History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace (1849–50), highlighting the strategies Martineau used to establish herself as a celebrity historian in a male-dominated field. Covering roughly the same time period as the History, Martineau's Autobiography, written in 1855, can be viewed as its companion text. In the History, Martineau provides a somewhat depersonalized account of contemporary British history, while at the same time emphasizing the importance of establishing the historicity of women's experiences. In the Autobiography, she further establishes the importance of women's history by inserting her own life story into the broader narrative of national progress. By linking the two texts, she makes a case for the historical significance of her own achievements as an author and social reformer.