Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
During his term the monthly published works by distinguished authors including John Stuart Mill
, Frances Power Cobbe
, and Isa Blagden
.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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
,
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
108
Chapman's period of management was marked by frequent financial...
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
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...
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...
Education
Edith Craig
Craig then was tutored privately at Dixton Manor Hall at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, the home of Mrs Cole's sister, Elizabeth Malleson
. Malleson had been an active member of the women's suffrage movement since...