John Stuart Mill

20 May 1806 - 07 May 1873

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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Textual Production	Margaret Oliphant	She followed this with The Condition of Women (Blackwood's, February 1858), The Great Unrepresented (Blackwood's, September 1866), and Mill on The Subjection of Women (Edinburgh Review, 1869), as well...
Textual Production	Robert Browning	Although reviews of Pauline were mixed, not a single copy was sold when he first released it. RB received some pretty fierce criticism from John Stuart Mill in an annotated review copy that he had...
Textual Production	Mary Agnes Hamilton	Mary Agnes Hamilton contributed to Hamish Hamilton 's Makers of the New World series a short biography entitled John Stuart Mill. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “The Early English Socialists”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1679, p. 247. 247
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.
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...
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...
Textual Production	Eleanor Rathbone	Rathbone's chapter originated as a paper entitled The Harvest of the Women's Movement, which she had delivered at Bedford College in November 1935 as one of the Fawcett Lecture series and printed under the...
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 She also supports women's education, but warns against the...
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 Features	Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda	Extending Mill 's idea that the unemancipated woman was a danger to the community, Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press. 5 MHVR argues that the pseudo-equality Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press. 6 of limited enfranchisement is more dangerous than absolute oppression, and that the half-way house...
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 Features	Margaret Oliphant	Blackwood's took a strong line against John Stuart Mill , and rejected an article on him by MO , which was then accepted by the Edinburgh Review. Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta. 92 In correspondence with the firm she...
Textual Features	Margaret Oliphant	MO 's objections to fictional indecency are linked with objections to female emancipation. Nasty thoughts, ugly suggestions, an imagination which prefers the unclean, is [sic] almost more appalling than the facts of actual depravity...
Textual Features	Mary Augusta Ward	The suffrage plot is the vehicle for a conventional romance in which the misguided heiress of an English country estate is tutored in social responsibility, and finally in love, by an exemplary bachelor barrister. The...
Residence	Harriet Taylor	HT lived apart from her husband, John Taylor , at Walton-on-Thames, where Mill visited often. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.

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