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
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Taylor
Two years later, Harriet Taylor married John Stuart Mill , who had already shared her life and that of her children for some time.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Helen was present at the ceremony, together with her brother Algernon.
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Power Cobbe
She seems never to have wished to attain the prescribed female roles of wife and mother—having noticed that several women she knew were liable to Bad-Husband Headaches—and biographer Sally Mitchell finds no evidence of...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
In 1833, as she grew more intimate with Mill , her husband tried to stop the friendship. In response to this HT suggested that she and John Taylor should separate.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
When HT returned to England, she and her husband agreed to maintain the facade of marriage, while placing no restrictions on her friendship with Mill .
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
Despite their efforts to avoid scandal, HT 's relationship with John Stuart Mill remained the subject of much gossip.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
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Rumours travelled through London's Unitarian circles.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Both Mill's father, James Mill , and his friend...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
HT met John Stuart Mill through her Unitarian minister, William Fox .
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, 1990.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
208
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, 1984.
117
He later wrote to her in Pau, asking her to return. She refused, explaining that Mill ...
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, 1951.
169
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
120
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
Despite her ill health, the couple entertained regularly. Their guests included John Stuart Mill , Henry Taylor , and Leigh Hunt . JWC became especially fond of Hunt and Mill.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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While in London she...
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...
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
On their return from Edinburgh, Jane and Thomas Carlyle received an unexpected visit from Ralph Waldo Emerson , who was on a literary tour and had been sent to them by John Stuart Mill ...
Friends, Associates Thomas Carlyle
While in London, TC socialized with John Stuart Mill , Mary and Charles Lamb , Henry Taylor , Sarah Austin and Leigh Hunt .
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...
Friends, Associates Sarah Flower Adams
As her father established himself socially and politically within the Dalston community, she became involved in London's literary and intellectual circles. Among those she met, William James Linton , John Stuart Mill , and...

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