Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
politics
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU
, organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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politics
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
The petition was presented to Parliament by John Stuart Mill
on 7 June 1866.
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...
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...