John Stuart Mill

20 May 1806 - 07 May 1873

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...
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	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...
Author summary	Frances Wright	FW was a writer in many genres: her œuvre includes a tragedy and a philosophical essay, but is dominated by political and feminist social critique, much of it taking the apparently ephemeral forms of lectures...
Author summary	Harriet Taylor	HT wrote a number of essays, reviews, poems, and articles on a wide range of subjects, but is most remembered for her contributions to Victorian liberal feminist debate. She also collaborated with John Stuart Mill
Publishing	Harriet Taylor	HT and John Stuart Mill published an article in the Morning Chronicle on the trial of Captain George Johnstone for an incident in naval warfare. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998. 77
Publishing	Harriet Taylor	HT and John Stuart Mill 's article Wife Murder appeared in the Morning Chronicle under his name only. Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1994. 87 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols. 209 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Publishing	Millicent Garrett Fawcett	Her husband, who considered her a working partner as well as a wife, actively encouraged her to begin her own writing career. Macmillan's Magazine paid her seven pounds (legally her husband's property!), which she donated...
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, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 216 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, 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, 1985–2025, 2 vols. 208 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Textual Features	Mary Augusta Ward	The suffrage plot is the vehicle for a conventional romance in which the misguided heiress of an English country estate is tutored in social responsibility, and finally in love, by an exemplary bachelor barrister. The...
Textual Features	Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda	Extending Mill 's idea that the unemancipated woman was a danger to the community, Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press, 1928. 5 MHVR argues that the pseudo-equality Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press, 1928. 6 of limited enfranchisement is more dangerous than absolute oppression, and that the half-way house...
Textual Features	Harriet Taylor	The essay argues in favour of women's financial independence, a view that HT 's new husband, John Stuart Mill , was reluctant to endorse. Roberts, Marie Mulvey. “Introduction”. The Disenfranchised: The Fight for the Suffrage, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. xi - xv. xi Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols. 209 She also supports women's education, but warns against the...
Textual Features	Harriet Taylor	The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor , John Stuart Mill , Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle , and Helen Taylor .
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, 1998. 92 In correspondence with the firm she...

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