Jeremy Bentham

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Standard Name: Bentham, Jeremy

Connections

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Later, her husband impressed her with the political opinions he had derived from his army experience, during which he began to...
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.
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Several of her assertions challenge traditional Christian ideology. For example she notes that there is no prospect of the...
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.
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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.
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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 ,...

Timeline

1789: Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles...

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1789

Jeremy Bentham 's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation was published.

1791: Jeremy Bentham completed plans for the Panopticon,...

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1791

Jeremy Bentham completed plans for the Panopticon, a model utilitarian prison.

1797: Jeremy Bentham made the first known reference...

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1797

Jeremy Bentham made the first known reference in England to the use of the contraceptive sponge.

1812-1816: Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly...

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1812-1816

Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly £500,000.

1815: A woman called Miss Morgan printed a pamphlet...

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1815

A woman called Miss Morgan printed a pamphlet entitled The Gaol of the City of Bristol compared with what a Gaol ought to be: an indictment of prison conditions.

24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...

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24 January 1824

The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.

24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...

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24 January 1824

The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.

1830: Political theorist Jeremy Bentham published...

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1830

Political theorist Jeremy Bentham published his Constitutional Code; for the use of all nations, and all governments professing liberal opinions, in one volume.

By 18 September 1847: John Conolly published The Construction and...

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John Conolly published The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, which likened the asylum to a home with a benevolent superintendent father.

1900: Sir Leslie Stephen published The English...

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1900

Sir Leslie Stephen published The English Utilitarians, a three-volume study of Jeremy Bentham , James Mill , and John Stuart Mill .

Texts

Bentham, Jeremy. Constitutional Code: Vol. I. Editors Rosen, Frederick and James Henderson Burns, Clarendon Press, 1983.