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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politics Mary Somerville
At the request of John Stuart Mill , MS was the first to sign his new parliamentary petition for women's suffrage .
She had had misgivings about supporting such a cause when it seemed to...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith J. Simcox
Much of EJS 's writing was influenced by John Stuart Mill , Jeremy Bentham , and Auguste Comte . She wrote for a range of publications including the Contemporary Review, the North British Review...
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...
Education C. E. Plumptre
Though nothing is know of CEP 's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Among the women present at the meeting was Emily Davies , who had presented her arguments for female suffrage to John Stuart Mill when he took the first petition advocating female enfranchisement before Parliament on...
Family and Intimate relationships Bessie Rayner Parkes
Joseph Parkes , Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about...
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 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.
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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...
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
politics Florence Nightingale
In early 1866 FN signed John Stuart Mill 's petition for women's suffrage. She and Mill also exchanged a series of letters on the issue. Although she signed the petition, she thought that married women's...
Textual Production Florence Nightingale
John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Jowett both read an early draft as part of Suggestions for Thought, 1860. Although impressed, both men advised Nightingale not to publish.
Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago.
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Intertextuality and Influence Florence Nightingale
John Stuart Mill , who called Cassandra a cri du coeur,
Kahane, Claire. “The Aesthetic Politics of Rage”. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol.
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uses its feminist theories in The Subjection of Women. Virginia Woolf quotes from it in A Room of One's Own.
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice.
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politics E. Nesbit
EN and her husband were early members of the Fabian Society . They hoped to see radical change in society, though Hubert Bland was also capable of cynicism and of making fun of his fellow...
Intertextuality and Influence Constance Naden
CN had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins , who later...

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