Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In 1859 Mill
reprinted this essay shortly after HT
's death in the second volume of his Dissertations and Discussions.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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He attributed the essay to its right author and claimed that she...
Cultural formation
Harriet Taylor
There is, unsurprisingly, no solid evidence as to the sexual characteristics of the Mills' seven-year marriage.
Some scholars argue that, because of Taylor
's health problems and the repression of Mill
's sexuality by his...
Cultural formation
Rose Macaulay
Over the course of her life, RM
's religious practices ranged between Anglican
and Anglo-agnostic. She was initially given instruction in the Anglican faith by her mother. As an early adolescent (like George Eliot
's...
Education
Frances E. W. Harper
Her education continued throughout her life. Her first employer owned a bookstore and maintained a private library in which he permitted her to read. She indulged herself in the works of John Ruskin
, John Stuart Mill
Education
Isak Dinesen
Much of ID
's education was self-administered. She read voraciously whether in Denmark or Africa, and was particularly well grounded in the Danish, other European, and English literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Spinoza
Education
C. E. Plumptre
Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which...
Education
Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read...
Education
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...
Education
Alice Meynell
In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . ....
Education
Edith Craig
Craig then was tutored privately at Dixton Manor Hall at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, the home of Mrs Cole's sister, Elizabeth Malleson
. Malleson had been an active member of the women's suffrage movement since...
Education
Dora Greenwell
Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885.
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, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
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Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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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...
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
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, 1989.
Timeline
January 1835
A prospectus announced the imminent merging of the Westminster Review with the newly created London Review.
31 March 1836
The Westminster Review merged with a new quarterly to produce The London and Westminster Review, which embraced the philosophies of political and cultural radicals.
26 May 1840
The Westminster Review, a new or restored incarnation of the London and Westminster Review, first appeared, following on the resignation of John Stuart Mill
.
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library
and the British parliamentary
archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network.
Texts
Mill, John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive. J. W. Parker, 1843.
Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873.
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924.
Mill, John Stuart. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill. University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Mill, John Stuart. Dissertations and Discussions. J. W. Parker, 1859.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. Essays on Sex Equality. Editor Rossi, Alice S., University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Collini, Stefan, and John Stuart Mill. “Introduction”. Essays on Equality, Law, and Education, edited by John M. Robson and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1984, p. vii - lvi.
Robson, Ann P., John M. Robson, John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, and Helen Taylor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Mill, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. J. W. Parker, 1859.
Mill, John Stuart, and Dorothy Fosdick. On Social Freedom. Columbia University Press, 1941.
Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. J. W. Parker, 1848.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy’s Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children. Printed for private circulation, 1853.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. “Sentiment and Intellect: The Story of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill”. Essays on Sex Equality, edited by Alice S. Rossi, University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 1-63.
Mill, John Stuart, Harriet Taylor, and Helen Taylor. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Collini, Stefan, John Stuart Mill, and Stefan Collini. “Textual Introduction”. Essays on Equality, Law, and Education, edited by John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1984, p. lvii - lxxxiii.
Mill, John Stuart. The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill: 1812-1848. Editor Mineka, Francis Edward, University of Toronto Press, 1963.
Mill, John Stuart. The Early Draft of John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography. Editor Stillinger, Jack, University of Illinois Press, 1961.
Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.
Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism. Parker, Son and Bourn, 1863.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. “Wife Murder”. Morning Chronicle.