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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of John Stuart Mill by the London Stereoscopic Company, c. 1870, looking directly at the viewer as if challengingly.

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Intertextuality and Influence Dora Greenwell
Throughout the essay DG relates her arguments to those of John Stuart Mill , Anna Jameson , and Bessie Rayner Parkes , and though she agrees with them on certain points (mainly their call for...
Literary responses Anna Maria Hall
In a letter to the periodical's editor, John Robertson , the month before this piece appeared, John Stuart Mill called it beyond all measure bad, and impossible to be made better. It has no one...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton contributed to Hamish Hamilton 's Makers of the New World series a short biography entitled John Stuart Mill.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“The Early English Socialists”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1679, 5 Apr. 1934, p. 247.
247
Education Frances E. W. Harper
Her education continued throughout her life. Her first employer owned a bookstore and maintained a private library in which he permitted her to read. She indulged herself in the works of John Ruskin , John Stuart Mill
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...
Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
Over the course of her life, RM 's religious practices ranged between Anglican and Anglo-agnostic. She was initially given instruction in the Anglican faith by her mother. As an early adolescent (like George Eliot 's...
Intertextuality and Influence Ethel Mannin
EM mentions spending her earlier years, whilst I was still serious,
Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds, 1937.
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reading Graham Wallace , John Stuart Mill , William Morris , Cunninghame Graham , and Upton Sinclair .
Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds, 1937.
74, 75
Education Alice Meynell
In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM ) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . ....
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...
politics E. Nesbit
EN and her husband were early members of the Fabian Society . They hoped to see radical change in society, though Hubert Bland was also capable of cynicism and of making fun of his fellow...
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning
politics Florence Nightingale
In early 1866 FN signed John Stuart Mill 's petition for women's suffrage. She and Mill also exchanged a series of letters on the issue. Although she signed the petition, she thought that married women's...
Textual Production Florence Nightingale
John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Jowett both read an early draft as part of Suggestions for Thought, 1860. Although impressed, both men advised Nightingale not to publish.
Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago, 1978.
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Intertextuality and Influence Florence Nightingale
John Stuart Mill , who called Cassandra a cri du coeur,
qtd. in
Kahane, Claire. “The Aesthetic Politics of Rage”. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol.
3
, No. 1, 1991, pp. 19-31.
28
uses its feminist theories in The Subjection of Women. Virginia Woolf quotes from it in A Room of One's Own.
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002.
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