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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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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | George Eliot | Although GE
helped the Westminster recover, according to The Leader, the former importance it acquired when under the editorship of John Stuart Mill
, |
| Publishing | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Her husband, who considered her a working partner as well as a wife, actively encouraged her to begin her own writing career. Macmillan's Magazine paid her seven pounds (legally her husband's property!), which she donated... |
| 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. 37-8 |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | During these years she met some leading liberal thinkers, such as John Stuart Mill
(whom she heard in the House as he moved his suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill on 20 May 1867, less... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Fraser-Tytler | CFT
's first novel shows an interest in the position of the working classes that seems to have been intensified after her marriage and move to Jarrow. She found in her husband, the educated... |
| Occupation | James Anthony Froude | During his term the monthly published works by distinguished authors including John Stuart Mill
, Frances Power Cobbe
, and Isa Blagden
. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
contributed to Hamish Hamilton
's Makers of the New World series a short biography entitled John Stuart Mill. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “The Early English Socialists”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1679, p. 247. 247 |
| Education | Frances E. W. Harper | Her education continued throughout her life. Her first employer owned a bookstore and maintained a private library in which he permitted her to read. She indulged herself in the works of John Ruskin
, John Stuart Mill |
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