John Stuart Mill

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Standard Name: Mill, John Stuart
Used Form: J. S. Mill
JSM was a leader in the intellectual life of the nineteenth century and of liberal or progressive thought. He wrote numerous philosophical works, publishing essays, newspaper articles, reviews, letters, and pamphlets over approximately sixty years. Best-known to feminists is Of the Subjection of Women, 1869. Harriet Taylor , whom he married after her husband's death, was a major influence on him.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of John Stuart Mill by the London Stereoscopic Company, c. 1870, looking directly at the viewer as if challengingly.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Taylor
Her collaboration with John Stuart Mill began in 1831 to 1832 with their casual exchange of essays on marriage and divorce.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998.
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One of her 1831 essays appeared in the Monthly Repository.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Taylor
In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton 's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him),
Taylor, Mary. The First Duty of Women. Emily Faithfull, 1870.
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with the counter-assertion: It is not for God...
Intertextuality and Influence Florence Nightingale
John Stuart Mill , who called Cassandra a cri du coeur,
qtd. in
Kahane, Claire. “The Aesthetic Politics of Rage”. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol.
3
, No. 1, 1991, pp. 19-31.
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uses its feminist theories in The Subjection of Women. Virginia Woolf quotes from it in A Room of One's Own.
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002.
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Intertextuality and Influence Dora Greenwell
Throughout the essay DG relates her arguments to those of John Stuart Mill , Anna Jameson , and Bessie Rayner Parkes , and though she agrees with them on certain points (mainly their call for...
Intertextuality and Influence Millicent Garrett Fawcett
From 1870 to 1885, MGF published reviews on political economy in the Athenæum. Her earliest review for the journal was published on 13 August 1870. Sir Charles Dilke , a family friend and aspiring...
Literary responses Eva Figes
Edward Candy 's review in The Times asserted that EF , in denying that women exist for the primary purpose of bearing children, was refusing to accept the biological difference between the sexes. She pointed...
Literary responses Millicent Garrett Fawcett
After her husband's defeat in the same election, he received a letter from Mill praising MGF 's article, which had by then appeared in the Fortnightly.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
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Literary responses Anna Maria Hall
In a letter to the periodical's editor, John Robertson , the month before this piece appeared, John Stuart Mill called it beyond all measure bad, and impossible to be made better. It has no one...
Occupation Auguste Comte
AC 's work strongly influenced John Stuart Mill , George Henry Lewes , George Eliot , and especially Harriet Martineau , who produced an English translation and abridgement of the philosopher's work. AC was concerned...
Occupation James Anthony Froude
During his term the monthly published works by distinguished authors including John Stuart Mill , Frances Power Cobbe , and Isa Blagden .
Occupation Wilhelm Dilthey
His writings range over many fields which have grown in importance during the twentieth century: not only aesthetics, psychology, and the emerging social sciences, but also hermeneutics and phenomenology. Among the many whom he influenced...
Occupation Helen Taylor
After her mother's death, HT became secretary and housekeeper to her step-father, John Stuart Mill .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Occupation Sarah Austin
She invested enormous energy in efforts to offset her husband's disability.
Pickett, T. H. “Four Letters of John Stuart Mill to Sarah Austin”. Victorians Institute Journal, Vol.
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, 1987, pp. 135-41.
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She was a scrupulous translator, frequently add[ing] notes and explanatory material to her translations.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
John Stuart Mill reflects in his autobiography that SA
Occupation Sarah Austin
SA taught German to Charles Buller , and to both James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill .
Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray, 1888, 2 vols.
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Pickett, T. H. “Four Letters of John Stuart Mill to Sarah Austin”. Victorians Institute Journal, Vol.
15
, 1987, pp. 135-41.
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Other Life Event Helen Taylor
HT presented John Stuart Mill 's library to Somerville College , Oxford, where it became a working collection for students.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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