Jeremy Bentham

While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH received as visitors Maria Edgeworth , William Hazlitt , Jeremy Bentham ,...

John Austin , Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant. A pupil of Jeremy Bentham , he held a number of positions relating to jurisprudence throughout his...

Friends of LDG 's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham , theCarlyles , James Mill , Macaulay , and Sydney Smith . Her own childhood friends included her...

Hard Times is also an attack on Bentham ite Utilitarianism.

Fevvers was hatched from an egg and raised in a brothel, and sold herself into slavery to help her foster family. With the touring circus, she migrates from London to the Siberian wilderness (it turns...

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...

Parental influences inclined both SA and her husband towards radicalism and ultra-Liberal opinions. Later, her husband impressed her with the political opinions he had derived from his army experience, during which he began to...

After they were married, the couple moved to No. 1 Queen Square, Westminster; their neighbours included Mill and Bentham .

John Austin was a pupil of Bentham , and intimate with all the friends of his master. They had met well before his marriage. At first he completely embraced Bentham's philosophies and political...