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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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 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 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 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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Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
Blackwood's took a strong line against John Stuart Mill , and rejected an article on him by MO , which was then accepted by the Edinburgh Review.
Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta.
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In correspondence with the firm she...
Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
MO 's objections to fictional indecency are linked with objections to female emancipation. Nasty thoughts, ugly suggestions, an imagination which prefers the unclean, is [sic] almost more appalling than the facts of actual depravity...
Textual Features Mary Augusta Ward
The suffrage plot is the vehicle for a conventional romance in which the misguided heiress of an English country estate is tutored in social responsibility, and finally in love, by an exemplary bachelor barrister. The...
Textual Features Harriet Taylor
The essay argues in favour of women's financial independence, a view that HT 's new husband, John Stuart Mill , was reluctant to endorse.
Roberts, Marie Mulvey. “Introduction”. The Disenfranchised: The Fight for the Suffrage, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, p. xi - xv.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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She also supports women's education, but warns against the...
Textual Features Harriet Taylor
The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor , John Stuart Mill , Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle , and Helen Taylor .
Textual Features Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Extending Mill 's idea that the unemancipated woman was a danger to the community,
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press.
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MHVR argues that the pseudo-equality
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press.
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of limited enfranchisement is more dangerous than absolute oppression, and that the half-way house...
Textual Features Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The book's message put forward the philosophical beliefs of John Stuart Mill and her husband, focusing on individualism and the values of self-help. It was written in plain language, with simple illustrations.
Residence Harriet Taylor
HT lived apart from her husband, John Taylor , at Walton-on-Thames, where Mill visited often.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.

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