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This article presents Harriet Martineau, a 19th century woman sociologist and her sociological work. She became famous because of her popularisation of social sciences (especially political economy), her literary and journalistic work and women's rights activism. It was not before the 1960s when she was 'discovered' by American sociology. This article tries to reconstruct the process of that 'discovery'...