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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Textual Production Harriet Taylor
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...
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.
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Anthologization Harriet Taylor
In 1859 Mill reprinted this essay shortly after HT 's death in the second volume of his Dissertations and Discussions.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
502
He attributed the essay to its right author and claimed that she...
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
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.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
209
She also supports women's education, but warns against the...
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.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
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 Production Harriet Taylor
HT and her husband anonymously published a pamphlet, Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy 's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children.
Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press.
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Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press.
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Occupation Helen Taylor
After her mother's death, HT became secretary and housekeeper to her step-father, John Stuart Mill .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor ; Their Correspondence [i.e.Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage was published.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
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Other Life Event Helen Taylor
HT presented John Stuart Mill 's library to Somerville College , Oxford, where it became a working collection for students.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Anna Swanwick
In 1865 AS signed the petition to parliament for women's enfranchisement, which was presented by John Stuart Mill on 7 June 1866.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
politics Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS remained fairly indifferent to women's rights for a long time. As late as 1869, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wanted her to publish a story on the issue, HBS commented that...
Friends, Associates Herbert Spencer
He counted Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill among his friends. George Eliot would have liked to make their intellectual friendship an intimate one, but he broke it off.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.

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