Harriet Martineau: Dreams of Dancing review " a mesmerising turn from the woman who outsold Dickens
Live theatre, NewcastleThe radical thinker's appetite for hypnotism leads to a delightful debunking of Victorian pseudoscienceThe radical Victorian thinker Harriet Martineau was a woman ahead of her time. A feminist, abolitionist and sociologist, her works of political philosophy outsold Dickens. Yet for a period in the mid 1840s she was known among the population of Tynemouth as "the woman who's been lying on a chai…