Jeremy Bentham

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...

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...

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...

The work was, according to her biographer, a statement of the scientific rationalist's ethical position. Several of her assertions challenge traditional Christian ideology. For example she notes that there is no prospect of the...

While in France, FT also met the young Frances Wright , a controversial figure who later played a significant role in her life. Wright was known for abolitionist sentiments developed during her travels...

Some time this year, AW met the socialist economist William Thompson at Jeremy Bentham 's house in Queen's Square Place, London.

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,

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.

The Utilitarian and political theorist Jeremy Bentham first made contact with FW .