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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politics Emily Davies
ED 's belief in equal rights and treatment for women led to her support for the suffrage cause. She was involved in the formation of a London suffrage committee later that year, but chose a...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Among the women present at the meeting was Emily Davies , who had presented her arguments for female suffrage to John Stuart Mill when he took the first petition advocating female enfranchisement before Parliament on...
politics Josephine Butler
Despite her ill health, JB began in the spring of 1869 to direct her energies towards a new cause, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Perhaps following the advice of Princess Victoria , who...
politics Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ frequently raised questions about women's position in society in her novels; however, she could also be extremely critical of suffragists in her writing and letters: Why cannot women make themselves into natural human beings...
politics Fanny Kingsley
FK 's only documented political engagement occured in the summer of 1869, when both she and Charles Kingsley attended a Women's Suffrage meeting in London at the invitation of John Stuart Mill , whose book...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU , organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged...
politics Mary Carpenter
MC 's biographer wrote: Her peculiar sense of womanliness rendered her at first unfavourable to the claim for Women's Suffrage. But contact with John Stuart Mill , and observing the power of legislation to effect...
politics Mary Somerville
At the request of John Stuart Mill , MS was the first to sign his new parliamentary petition for women's suffrage .
She had had misgivings about supporting such a cause when it seemed to...
politics E. Nesbit
EN and her husband were early members of the Fabian Society . They hoped to see radical change in society, though Hubert Bland was also capable of cynicism and of making fun of his fellow...
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/.
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 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 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 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.
15
, 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.
John Stuart Mill reflects in his autobiography that SA
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

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