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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Taylor | In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton
's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him), |
| Health | Harriet Taylor | HT
and John Stuart Mill
were ordered abroad by their doctor. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 185 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Taylor | Her collaboration with John Stuart Mill
began in 1831 to 1832 with their casual exchange of essays on marriage and divorce. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press. 15 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Health | Harriet Taylor | For health reasons, HT
and John Stuart Mill
spent the winter months apart: she was too ill to travel with him to warmer European climates. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 138 |
| Textual Production | Harriet Taylor | It was inspired by the women's movement in the United States, which she saw as a new struggle for the enfranchisement of women; their admission, in law and in fact, to equality in all... |
| Travel | Harriet Taylor | HT
and John Stuart Mill
travelled to France together, intending to benefit their health. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 260-1 |
| Anthologization | Harriet Taylor | In 1859 Mill
reprinted this essay shortly after HT
's death in the second volume of his Dissertations and Discussions. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 14 Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. 502 |
| Publishing | Harriet Taylor | HT
and John Stuart Mill
published an article in the Morning Chronicle on the trial of Captain George Johnstone
for an incident in naval warfare. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press. 77 |
| 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. xi Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 209 |
| Publishing | Harriet Taylor | HT
and John Stuart Mill
's article Wife Murder appeared in the Morning Chronicle under his name only. Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press. 87 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 209 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
| 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 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. 92-3 Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. 180 |
| 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. |
| 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. 210 |
| 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/. |
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