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
Travel Harriet Taylor
HT travelled to Paris in order to take the decision whether she should separate permanently from her husband and enter into a more intimate relationship with John Stuart Mill .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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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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Health Harriet Taylor
In the winter of 1835-6 John Stuart Mill 's letters reported that HT was in bad 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.
100
Publishing Helen Taylor
The essay, originally titled The Ladies' Petition, was reprinted as a pamphlet the same year, after John Stuart Mill approached publisher Trübner and Co. with the manuscript.
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
When published later that year, it...
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.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Travel Harriet Taylor
She and Mill regularly travelled together. Both in poor health in 1838, for example, they travelled to Italy and back through Germany. They took care, however, never to reveal to their friends before leaving...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helen Taylor
The essay considers the suffrage petition presented by Mill in 1866 to the House of Commons . While examining the petition, HT gives particular attention to the English constitution and laws that allow women to...
Travel Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill and his younger brothers met HT and her children in Paris, whence they travelled to Geneva and Lausanne before Mill and Taylor continued alone to Genoa.
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.
116
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.
117
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.
169
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.
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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.
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