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.
Despite her ill health, the couple entertained regularly. Their guests included John Stuart Mill
, Henry Taylor
, and Leigh Hunt
. JWC
became especially fond of Hunt and Mill.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
On their return from Edinburgh, Jane and Thomas Carlyle received an unexpected visit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who was on a literary tour and had been sent to them by John Stuart Mill
...
During these years she met some leading liberal thinkers, such as John Stuart Mill
(whom she heard in the House as he moved his suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill on 20 May 1867, less...
Health
Harriet Taylor
In the winter of 1835-6 John Stuart Mill
's letters reported that HT
was in bad 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.
100
Health
Harriet Taylor
HT
and John Stuart Mill
were ordered abroad by their doctor.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
185
Health
Harriet Taylor
For health reasons, HT
and John Stuart Mill
spent the winter months apart: she was too ill to travel with him to warmer European climates.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
138
Intertextuality and Influence
Ethel Mannin
EM
mentions spending her earlier years, whilst I was still serious,
Margaret Haig Thomas (later MHVR
) was influenced by the political ideas of John Stuart Mill
's The Subjection of Women (1869), Cicely Hamilton
's Marriage as a Trade (1909), and Olive Schreiner
's Woman and Labour (1911).
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
22-8, 30-1
Intertextuality and Influence
Constance Naden
CN
had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins
, who later...
Intertextuality and Influence
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
From 1870 to 1885, MGF
published reviews on political economy in the Athenæum. Her earliest review for the journal was published on 13 August 1870. Sir Charles Dilke
, a family friend and aspiring...
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
Frances Power Cobbe
The book arose from FPC
's belief that We want a System of Morals which shall not entangle itself with sectarian creeds, nor imperil its authority with that of tottering Churches; but which shall be...