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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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
published an article in the Morning Chronicle on the trial of Captain George Johnstone
for an incident in naval warfare. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press. 77 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| politics | Isa Craig | Together with feminist colleagues Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Bessie Rayner Parkes
, and Emily Davies
, IC
helped publicise John Stuart Mill's
parliamentary nomination. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 216 |
| politics | Helen Taylor | It is possibly the only time she shared a stage with Mill
. Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 279 |
| politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
and the Langham Place feminists
strongly supported John Stuart Mill
's campaign for office. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 150 |
| politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | The petition was presented to Parliament by John Stuart Mill
on 7 June 1866. |
| politics | Emily Davies | ED
's belief in equal rights and treatment for women led to her support for the suffrage cause. She was involved in the formation of a London suffrage committee later that year, but chose a... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Among the women present at the meeting was Emily Davies
, who had presented her arguments for female suffrage to John Stuart Mill
when he took the first petition advocating female enfranchisement before Parliament on... |
| 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... |
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