Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press.
vii, 39
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Travel | John Stuart Mill | In 1820 and 1821 he spent time studying in France with Bentham
's brother Samuel
. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. vii, 39 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charles Dickens | Hard Times is also an attack on Bentham
ite Utilitarianism. |
Textual Features | John Stuart Mill | The creed or philosophy of Utilitarianism held that human actions ought to be directed towards (in the well-known phrase of Jeremy Bentham
) the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Mill argued that utility is... |
Residence | Sarah Austin | After they were married, the couple moved to No. 1 Queen Square, Westminster; their neighbours included Mill
and Bentham
. Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray. 35 |
politics | Anna Wheeler | Once established in London by the mid 1820s, AW
moved among the socialist intelligentsia, choosing as her associates Jeremy Bentham
, whom she claimed to [adore] as a philosopher and [love] as a friend, Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research. 350 |
politics | Sarah Austin | Parental influences inclined both SA
and her husband towards radicalism and ultra-Liberal opinions. Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press. 26 |
Literary Setting | Angela Carter | Fevvers was hatched from an egg and raised in a brothel, and sold herself into slavery to help her foster family. With the touring circus, she migrates from London to the Siberian wilderness (it turns... |
Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Critic Lynda M. Thompson
argues that TCP
and Laetitia Pilkington
(her close predecessor in publication, regularly linked with her in contemporary gossip) were doing something quite new in revealing their transgressive sex lives and blaming... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith J. Simcox | Much of EJS
's writing was influenced by John Stuart Mill
, Jeremy Bentham
, and Auguste Comte
. She wrote for a range of publications including the Contemporary Review, the North British Review... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith J. Simcox | The work was, according to her biographer, a statement of the scientific rationalist's ethical position. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press. 58 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | Some time this year, AW
met the socialist economist William Thompson
at Jeremy Bentham
's house in Queen's Square Place, London. Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes. vii |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham
and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary. Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray. 15 Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Friends of LDG
's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham
, theCarlyles
, James Mill
, Macaulay
, and Sydney Smith
. Her own childhood friends included her... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Wright | The Utilitarian and political theorist Jeremy Bentham
first made contact with FW
. Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press. 49 |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |