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
politics Helen Taylor
It is possibly the only time she shared a stage with Mill .
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
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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.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
208
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.
216
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
When published later that year, it...
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.
110
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
49
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...
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.
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.
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.
101-2
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
116
politics Anna Swanwick
In 1865 AS signed the petition to parliament for women's enfranchisement, which was presented by John Stuart Mill on 7 June 1866.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
politics Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS remained fairly indifferent to women's rights for a long time. As late as 1869, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wanted her to publish a story on the issue, HBS commented that...
Friends, Associates Herbert Spencer
He counted Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill among his friends. George Eliot would have liked to make their intellectual friendship an intimate one, but he broke it off.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.

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