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 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...
politics Matilda Betham-Edwards
Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...
politics Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) read John Stuart Mill 's Principles of Political Economy.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press.
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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/.
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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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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politics Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB and the Langham Place feminists strongly supported John Stuart Mill 's campaign for office.
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...
politics Josephine Butler
Despite her ill health, JB began in the spring of 1869 to direct her energies towards a new cause, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Perhaps following the advice of Princess Victoria , who...
politics Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ frequently raised questions about women's position in society in her novels; however, she could also be extremely critical of suffragists in her writing and letters: Why cannot women make themselves into natural human beings...
politics Fanny Kingsley
FK 's only documented political engagement occured in the summer of 1869, when both she and Charles Kingsley attended a Women's Suffrage meeting in London at the invitation of John Stuart Mill , whose book...
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...

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