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.
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.
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau
. She also knew John Stuart Mill
, Giuseppe Garibaldi
, James Clark
, Edwin Chadwick
, William Rathbone
, Julia Wedgwood
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | HT
met John Stuart Mill
through her Unitarian
minister, William Fox
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey
, was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company
ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Her husband
was himself ill, and objected to her journey, but she was determined to go. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 117 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Joseph Parkes
, Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | HT
married John Stuart Mill
on Easter Monday at a registry office outside London, nearly two years after the death of her first husband
. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 169 Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 120 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | She seems never to have wished to attain the prescribed female roles of wife and mother—having noticed that several women she knew were liable to Bad-Husband Headaches—and biographer Sally Mitchell
finds no evidence of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | In 1833, as she grew more intimate with Mill
, her husband tried to stop the friendship. In response to this HT
suggested that she and John Taylor
should separate. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Taylor | HT
's mother was Harriet (Hardy) Taylor
, known for her feminism, her writings, and her association with John Stuart Mill
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | When HT
returned to England, she and her husband agreed to maintain the facade of marriage, while placing no restrictions on her friendship with Mill
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 113 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Taylor | Two years later, Harriet Taylor
married John Stuart Mill
, who had already shared her life and that of her children for some time. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 169 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Despite their efforts to avoid scandal, HT
's relationship with John Stuart Mill
remained the subject of much gossip. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
's father, Samuel Conway
, was a Congregational minister, who was apparently given to quoting John Stuart Mill
in his sermons and found little to dispute in Darwin
's The Origin of Species. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 59 |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Education | Isak Dinesen |
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