Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus.
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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Occupation | Auguste Comte | AC
's work strongly influenced John Stuart Mill
, George Henry Lewes
, George Eliot
, and especially Harriet Martineau
, who produced an English translation and abridgement of the philosopher's work. AC
was concerned... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The book arose from FPC
's belief that We want a System of Morals which shall not entangle itself with sectarian creeds, nor imperil its authority with that of tottering Churches; but which shall be... |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | On the day that John Stuart Mill
presented to Parliament
the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC
placed a double-column letter in the high Tory
paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | She seems never to have wished to attain the prescribed female roles of wife and mother—having noticed that several women she knew were liable to Bad-Husband Headaches—and biographer Sally Mitchell
finds no evidence of... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
| politics | Mary Carpenter | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Despite her ill health, the couple entertained regularly. Their guests included John Stuart Mill
, Henry Taylor
, and Leigh Hunt
. JWC
became especially fond of Hunt and Mill. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 100-1 |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | On their return from Edinburgh, Jane and Thomas Carlyle received an unexpected visit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who was on a literary tour and had been sent to them by John Stuart Mill
... |
| Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | While in London, TC
socialized with John Stuart Mill
, Mary
and Charles Lamb
, Henry Taylor
, Sarah Austin
and Leigh Hunt
. |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey
, was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company
ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an... |
| Textual Production | Robert Browning | Although reviews of Pauline were mixed, not a single copy was sold when he first released it. RB
received some pretty fierce criticism from John Stuart Mill
in an annotated review copy that he had... |
| 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. 18 |
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