Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
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Jeremy Bentham
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Standard Name: Bentham, Jeremy
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Frances Wright | |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | Some time this year, AW
met the socialist economist William Thompson
at Jeremy Bentham
's house in Queen's Square Place, London. Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes. vii |
| politics | Anna Wheeler | Once established in London by the mid 1820s, AW
moved among the socialist intelligentsia, choosing as her associates Jeremy Bentham
, whom she claimed to [adore] as a philosopher and [love] as a friend, Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research. 350 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham
and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary. Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray. 15 Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | While in France, FT
also met the young Frances Wright
, a controversial figure who later played a significant role in her life. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 30-2 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith J. Simcox | Much of EJS
's writing was influenced by John Stuart Mill
, Jeremy Bentham
, and Auguste Comte
. She wrote for a range of publications including the Contemporary Review, the North British Review... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith J. Simcox | The work was, according to her biographer, a statement of the scientific rationalist's ethical position. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press. 58 |
| Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Critic Lynda M. Thompson
argues that TCP
and Laetitia Pilkington
(her close predecessor in publication, regularly linked with her in contemporary gossip) were doing something quite new in revealing their transgressive sex lives and blaming... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Joseph Parkes
, Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about... |
| Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian
but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican
to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale
held strongly to his Unitarian background and was... |
| Education | Florence Nightingale | Florence received a liberal education from her father. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Textual Features | John Stuart Mill | The creed or philosophy of Utilitarianism held that human actions ought to be directed towards (in the well-known phrase of Jeremy Bentham
) the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Mill argued that utility is... |
| Education | John Stuart Mill | |
| Friends, Associates | John Stuart Mill | He was introduced to Jeremy Bentham
through his father. He also associated with John Austin
and George Grote
. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. 38, 51 |
| Travel | John Stuart Mill | In 1820 and 1821 he spent time studying in France with Bentham
's brother Samuel
. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. vii, 39 |
Timeline
1789: Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles...
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1789
Jeremy Bentham
's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation was published.
1791: Jeremy Bentham completed plans for the Panopticon,...
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1791
Jeremy Bentham
completed plans for the Panopticon, a model utilitarian prison.
1797: Jeremy Bentham made the first known reference...
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1797
Jeremy Bentham
made the first known reference in England to the use of the contraceptive sponge.
1812-1816: Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly...
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1812-1816
Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly £500,000.
1815: A woman called Miss Morgan printed a pamphlet...
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1815
A woman called Miss Morgan
printed a pamphlet entitled The Gaol of the City of Bristol compared with what a Gaol ought to be: an indictment of prison conditions.
24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...
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24 January 1824
The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.
24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...
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24 January 1824
The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.
1830: Political theorist Jeremy Bentham published...
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1830
Political theorist Jeremy Bentham
published his Constitutional Code; for the use of all nations, and all governments professing liberal opinions, in one volume.
By 18 September 1847: John Conolly published The Construction and...
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By 18 September 1847
John Conolly
published The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, which likened the asylum to a home with a benevolent superintendent father.
1900: Sir Leslie Stephen published The English...
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1900
Sir Leslie Stephen
published The English Utilitarians, a three-volume study of Jeremy Bentham
, James Mill
, and John Stuart Mill
.
Texts
Bentham, Jeremy. Constitutional Code: Vol. I. Editors Rosen, Frederick and James Henderson Burns, Clarendon Press, 1983.