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 Excerpt
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.
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He later wrote to her in Pau, asking her to return. She refused, explaining that Mill ...
Textual Production Helen Taylor
HT collaborated with John Stuart Mill on several projects. She assisted him in the completion of The Subjection of Women (1869) and edited his posthumous Autobiography(1873).
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.
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.
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Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
120
Cultural formation Harriet Taylor
There is, unsurprisingly, no solid evidence as to the sexual characteristics of the Mills' seven-year marriage.
Some scholars argue that, because of Taylor 's health problems and the repression of Mill 's sexuality by his...
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),
Taylor, Mary. The First Duty of Women. Emily Faithfull.
177
with the counter-assertion: It is not for God...
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.
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One of her 1831 essays appeared in the Monthly Repository.
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.
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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.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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He attributed the essay to its right author and claimed that she...
politics Anna Swanwick
In 1865 AS signed the petition to parliament for women's enfranchisement, which was presented by John Stuart Mill on 7 June 1866.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
politics Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS remained fairly indifferent to women's rights for a long time. As late as 1869, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wanted her to publish a story on the issue, HBS commented that...
Friends, Associates Herbert Spencer
He counted Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill among his friends. George Eliot would have liked to make their intellectual friendship an intimate one, but he broke it off.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.

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