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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of John Stuart Mill by the London Stereoscopic Company, c. 1870, looking directly at the viewer as if challengingly.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
Education Isak Dinesen
Much of ID 's education was self-administered. She read voraciously whether in Denmark or Africa, and was particularly well grounded in the Danish, other European, and English literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Spinoza
Friends, Associates Lucie Duff Gordon
Friends of LDG 's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham , theCarlyles , James Mill , Macaulay , and Sydney Smith . Her own childhood friends included her...
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 ,
qtd. in
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968.
108
Chapman's period of management was marked by frequent financial...
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...
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, 1931.
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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.
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, 1971.
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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885.
73
She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans

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