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.

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Wealth and Poverty Helen Taylor
Following Mill 's death, HT inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother 's grave.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
She arranged for the presentation in 1905 to Somerville College, Oxford
Travel Harriet Taylor
HT travelled to Paris in order to take the decision whether she should separate permanently from her husband and enter into a more intimate relationship with John Stuart Mill .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Travel Harriet Taylor
She and Mill regularly travelled together. Both in poor health in 1838, for example, they travelled to Italy and back through Germany. They took care, however, never to reveal to their friends before leaving...
Travel Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill and his younger brothers met HT and her children in Paris, whence they travelled to Geneva and Lausanne before Mill and Taylor continued alone to Genoa.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Travel Harriet Taylor
HT and John Stuart Mill travelled to France together, intending to benefit their health.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helen Taylor
The essay considers the suffrage petition presented by Mill in 1866 to the House of Commons . While examining the petition, HT gives particular attention to the English constitution and laws that allow women to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rose Tremain
This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...
Textual Production Harriet Taylor
HT and her husband anonymously published a pamphlet, Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy 's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children.
Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press.
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Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press.
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Textual Production Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor ; Their Correspondence [i.e.Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage was published.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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Textual Production Helen Taylor
HT edited John Stuart Mill 's Three Essays on Religion: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism and also contributed an Introductory Notice.
Mill, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer.
prelims, vii-xi
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was the only woman to write regularly for the progressive UnitarianTheological Review, with which she published two dozen essays between 1864 and 1877 (many of them collected in Hopes of the Human...
Textual Production Lydia Becker
LB published the pamphlet Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a Reply to Mr Fitzjames Stephen 's Strictures on Mr. J. S. Mill 's Subjection of Women.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Florence Nightingale
John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Jowett both read an early draft as part of Suggestions for Thought, 1860. Although impressed, both men advised Nightingale not to publish.
Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago.
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January 1835: A prospectus announced the imminent merging...

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January 1835

A prospectus announced the imminent merging of the Westminster Review with the newly created London Review.

31 March 1836: The Westminster Review merged with a new...

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31 March 1836

The Westminster Review merged with a new quarterly to produce The London and Westminster Review, which embraced the philosophies of political and cultural radicals.

26 May 1840: The Westminster Review, a new or restored...

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26 May 1840

The Westminster Review, a new or restored incarnation of the London and Westminster Review, first appeared, following on the resignation of John Stuart Mill .

October 1864: The Working Women's College opened in Queen...

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October 1864

The Working Women's College opened in Queen Street, London.

7 October 1865: Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed...

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7 October 1865

Governor Edward Eyre ruthlessly suppressed a rebellion which began at Morant Bay in Jamaica.

7 June 1866: John Stuart Mill presented to the House of...

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7 June 1866

John Stuart Mill presented to the House of Commons a suffrage petition signed by 1,499 women, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Jessie Boucherett , and Emily Davies .

7 June 1866: John Stuart Mill presented to the House of...

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7 June 1866

John Stuart Mill presented to the House of Commons a suffrage petition signed by 1,499 women, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Jessie Boucherett , and Emily Davies .

5 April 1867: John Stuart Mill presented the House of Commons...

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5 April 1867

John Stuart Mill presented the House of Commons with a second women's suffrage petitionpetition, bearing over three thousand signatures.

20 May 1867: John Stuart Mill moved to amend the Representation...

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20 May 1867

John Stuart Mill moved to amend the Representation of the People Bill to replace the word man with person.

Autumn 1867: The London National Society for Women's Suffrage...

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Autumn 1867

The London National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed under the direction of Frances Power Cobbe , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , and others.

1868: Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs:...

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1868

Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant in Boston under the name of Mary Hamilton.

21 April 1868: A Married Women's Property Bill prepared...

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21 April 1868

A Married Women's Property Bill prepared by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was sponsored by George Shaw Lefevre and John Stuart Mill ; it stalled because the vote in the House

February 1876: Anna Haslam, a Quaker, established the Dublin...

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February 1876

Anna Haslam , a Quaker, established the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association (sometimes known as the Irish Suffrage Society ).

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 .

15, 17 June 2011: The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released...

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15, 17 June 2011

The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library and the British parliamentary archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network.

Texts

Mill, John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive. J. W. Parker, 1843.
Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873.
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924.
Mill, John Stuart. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Mill, John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions. J. W. Parker, 1859.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. Essays on Sex Equality. Editor Rossi, Alice S., University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Collini, Stefan, and John Stuart Mill. “Introduction”. Essays on Equality, Law, and Education, edited by John M. Robson and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1984, p. vii - lvi.
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Mill, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. J. W. Parker, 1859.
Mill, John Stuart, and Dorothy Fosdick. On Social Freedom. Columbia University Press, 1941.
Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. J. W. Parker, 1848.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy’s Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children. Printed for private circulation, 1853.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. “Sentiment and Intellect: The Story of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill”. Essays on Sex Equality, edited by Alice S. Rossi, University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 1-63.
Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Collini, Stefan et al. “Textual Introduction”. Essays on Equality, Law, and Education, edited by John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1984, p. lvii - lxxxiii.
Mill, John Stuart. The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill: 1812-1848. Editor Mineka, Francis Edward, University of Toronto Press, 1963.
Mill, John Stuart. The Early Draft of John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography. Editor Stillinger, Jack, University of Illinois Press, 1961.
Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.
Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. Parker, Son and Bourn, 1863.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. “Wife Murder”. Morning Chronicle.