John Taylor

Standard Name: Taylor, John,, d. 1849

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Travel John Stuart Mill
In autumn 1833 he joined Harriet Taylor in Paris while she was temporarily separated from her husband . This time together was in some way crucial to their relationship, though she was not yet prepared...
Travel Harriet Taylor
HT travelled to Paris in order to take the decision whether she should separate permanently from her husband and enter into a more intimate relationship with John Stuart Mill .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
49
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The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor , John Stuart Mill , Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle , and Helen Taylor .
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.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Occupation Harriet Taylor
On 14 May 1849 HT returned to John Taylor 's home, where she nursed him for two months during the final stages of his terminal cancer.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
152
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
208
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
617
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
Her husband was himself ill, and objected to her journey, but she was determined to go.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
117
He later wrote to her in Pau, asking her to return. She refused, explaining that Mill ...
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Taylor
HT 's father, John Taylor , was a wholesale druggist.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Taylor
In July 1849 HT 's father died of cancer. Helen's mother, who had been separated from him for several years, came back to nurse him through the last two months of his life.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
Harriet Hardy , aged nineteen, married John Taylor , a wealthy druggist, political radical, and active Unitarian eleven years her senior.
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.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
24
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
208
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
101
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
HT 's husband John Taylor died of cancer in her care.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
118
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
HT married John Stuart Mill on Easter Monday at a registry office outside London, nearly two years after the death of her first husband .
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
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
120
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.
Dedications John Stuart Mill
She edited the work and also pointed out the need for a chapter on the labouring classes. Mill considered that this chapter in particular reflected her ideas and in many cases her wording of them...

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