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.
It was inspired by the women's movement in the United States, which she saw as a new struggle for the enfranchisement of women; their admission, in law and in fact, to equality in all...
The essay considers the suffrage petition presented by Mill
in 1866 to the House of Commons
. While examining the petition, HT
gives particular attention to the English constitution and laws that allow women to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Rose Tremain
This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill
presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement...
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.
110
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
Travel
Harriet Taylor
She and Mill regularly travelled together. Both in poor health in 1838, for example, they travelled to Italy and back through Germany. They took care, however, never to reveal to their friends before leaving...
Travel
Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill
and his younger brothers met HT
and her children in Paris, whence they travelled to Geneva and Lausanne before Mill and Taylor continued alone to Genoa.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
101-2
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
116
Travel
Harriet Taylor
HT
and John Stuart Mill
travelled to France together, intending to benefit their health.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
260-1
Wealth and Poverty
Helen Taylor
Following Mill
's death, HT
inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother
's grave.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.