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"Harriet Martineau" by Florence Fenwick Miller is a biographical and critical account written in the late 19th century. The work focuses on the life and contributions of Harriet Martineau, an influential social theorist and writer, as the author weaves together personal anecdotes, historical context, and her literary achievements. The narrative promises to delve into Martineau's early influences, struggles with deafness, personal relationships, and her pioneering role in advocating for women's rights and social justice. At the start of the biography, the author outlines Martineau's background, including her family's Huguenot heritage and her early childhood struggles influenced by a strict upbringing and a series of physical ailments. The opening chapters provide insight into her formative years, marked by a complicated relationship with her mother and lasting impacts from her health challenges, especially her deafness. As Martineau grows, we see her passions for justice and education

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The material for this biographical and critical sketch of Harriet
Martineau and her works has been drawn from a variety of sources. Some
of it is quite new. Her own Autobiography was completed in 1855; and
there has not hitherto been anything at all worth calling a record of
the twenty-one years during which she lived and worked after that date.
Even as regards the earlier period, although, of course I have drawn
largely for facts upon the Autobiography, yet I have found much that
is new to relate. For some information and hints about this period I am
indebted to her relatives of her own generation, Dr. James Martineau,
and Mrs. Henry Turner, of Nottingham, as well as to one or two others.
With reference to the latest twenty-one years of her life, my record is
entirely fresh, though necessarily brief. Mrs. Chapman, of Boston,
U.S.A., has written a volume in completion of the Autobiography,
which should have covered this later period; but her account is little
more than a repetition, in a peculiar style, of the story that Miss
Martineau herself had told, and leaves the later work of the life
without systematic record. As a well-known critic remarked in
Macmillan--"This volume is one more illustration of the folly of
intrusting the composition of biography to persons who have only the
wholly irrelevant claim of intimate friendship." But it should be
remembered that when Miss Martineau committed to Mrs. Chapman the task
of writing a memorial sketch, and when the latter accepted the
undertaking, both of them believed that the life and work of the
subject of it were practically over. I have reason to know that if
Harriet Martineau had supposed it to be even remotely possible that so
much of her life remained to be spent and recorded, she would have
chosen some one more skill

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