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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Friends, Associates Thomas Carlyle
While in London, TC socialized with John Stuart Mill , Mary and Charles Lamb , Henry Taylor , Sarah Austin and Leigh Hunt .
politics Mary Carpenter
MC 's biographer wrote: Her peculiar sense of womanliness rendered her at first unfavourable to the claim for Women's Suffrage. But contact with John Stuart Mill , and observing the power of legislation to effect...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...
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...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
The book arose from FPC 's belief that We want a System of Morals which shall not entangle itself with sectarian creeds, nor imperil its authority with that of tottering Churches; but which shall be...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was the only woman to write regularly for the progressive UnitarianTheological Review, with which she published two dozen essays between 1864 and 1877 (many of them collected in Hopes of the Human...
Occupation Auguste Comte
AC 's work strongly influenced John Stuart Mill , George Henry Lewes , George Eliot , and especially Harriet Martineau , who produced an English translation and abridgement of the philosopher's work. AC was concerned...
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...
politics Isa Craig
Together with feminist colleagues Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Emily Davies , IC helped publicise John Stuart Mill's parliamentary nomination.
Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus.
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Friends, Associates Emily Davies
In London, ED met John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor . At Emily Faithfull 's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig , and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope , Louis Blanc
politics Emily Davies
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...
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...
Education Isak Dinesen
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
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...

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