Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press.
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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Harriet Taylor | HT
and John Stuart Mill
's article Wife Murder appeared in the Morning Chronicle under his name only. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 209 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
| Textual Features | Harriet Taylor | The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor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 Production | Harriet Taylor | HT
and her husband
anonymously published a pamphlet, Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy
's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children. Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press. 92-3 Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. 180 |
| Occupation | Helen Taylor | After her mother's death, HT
became secretary and housekeeper to her step-father, John Stuart Mill
. 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. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Textual Production | Harriet Taylor | John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
; Their Correspondence [i.e.Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage was published. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 210 |
| Other Life Event | Helen Taylor | HT
presented John Stuart Mill
's library to Somerville College
, Oxford, where it became a working collection for students. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Helen Taylor | HT
edited John Stuart Mill
's Three Essays on Religion: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism and also contributed an Introductory Notice. Mill, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. prelims, vii-xi Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | In 1833, as she grew more intimate with Mill
, her husband tried to stop the friendship. In response to this HT
suggested that she and John Taylor
should separate. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Taylor | HT
's mother was Harriet (Hardy) Taylor
, known for her feminism, her writings, and her association with John Stuart Mill
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | When HT
returned to England, she and her husband agreed to maintain the facade of marriage, while placing no restrictions on her friendship with Mill
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 113 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Taylor | Two years later, Harriet Taylor
married John Stuart Mill
, who had already shared her life and that of her children for some time. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 169 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Despite their efforts to avoid scandal, HT
's relationship with John Stuart Mill
remained the subject of much gossip. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
| Wealth and Poverty | Helen Taylor | Following Mill
's death, HT
inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother
's grave. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| 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 |
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