Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press.
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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| politics | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
frequently raised questions about women's position in society in her novels; however, she could also be extremely critical of suffragists in her writing and letters: Why cannot women make themselves into natural human beings... |
| politics | Fanny Kingsley | FK
's only documented political engagement occured in the summer of 1869, when both she and Charles Kingsley attended a Women's Suffrage meeting in London at the invitation of John Stuart Mill
, whose book... |
| Author summary | Frances Wright | FW
was a writer in many genres: her œuvre includes a tragedy and a philosophical essay, but is dominated by political and feminist social critique, much of it taking the apparently ephemeral forms of lectures... |
| Author summary | Harriet Taylor | HT
wrote a number of essays, reviews, poems, and articles on a wide range of subjects, but is most remembered for her contributions to Victorian liberal feminist debate. She also collaborated with John Stuart Mill |
| Publishing | Harriet Taylor | HT
and John Stuart Mill
published an article in the Morning Chronicle on the trial of Captain George Johnstone
for an incident in naval warfare. |
| Publishing | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Her husband, who considered her a working partner as well as a wife, actively encouraged her to begin her own writing career. Macmillan's Magazine paid her seven pounds (legally her husband's property!), which she donated... |
| Publishing | Harriet Taylor | HT
and John Stuart Mill
's article Wife Murder appeared in the Morning Chronicle under his name only. Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press. 87 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 209 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
| Publishing | Helen Taylor | The essay, originally titled The Ladies' Petition, was reprinted as a pamphlet the same year, after John Stuart Mill
approached publisher Trübner and Co.
with the manuscript. Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 216 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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. 208 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
| Textual Features | Harriet Taylor | The essay argues in favour of women's financial independence, a view that HT
's new husband, John Stuart Mill
, was reluctant to endorse. Roberts, Marie Mulvey. “Introduction”. The Disenfranchised: The Fight for the Suffrage, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, p. xi - xv. xi Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 209 |
| 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
. |
| Textual Features | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Extending Mill
's idea that the unemancipated woman was a danger to the community, Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press. 5 Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press. 6 |
| Textual Features | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The book's message put forward the philosophical beliefs of John Stuart Mill
and her husband, focusing on individualism and the values of self-help. It was written in plain language, with simple illustrations. |
| Textual Features | Margaret Oliphant | Blackwood's took a strong line against John Stuart Mill
, and rejected an article on him by MO
, which was then accepted by the Edinburgh Review. Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta. 92 |
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