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.
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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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Helen Taylor | After her mother's death, HT
became secretary and housekeeper to her step-father, John Stuart Mill
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
| Literary responses | Eva Figes | Edward Candy
's review in The Times asserted that EF
, in denying that women exist for the primary purpose of bearing children, was refusing to accept the biological difference between the sexes. She pointed... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | After her husband's defeat in the same election, he received a letter from Mill
praising MGF
's article, which had by then appeared in the Fortnightly. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 37-8 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Fraser-Tytler | CFT
's first novel shows an interest in the position of the working classes that seems to have been intensified after her marriage and move to Jarrow. She found in her husband, the educated... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | John Stuart Mill
, who called Cassandra a cri du coeur, Kahane, Claire. “The Aesthetic Politics of Rage”. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol. 3 , No. 1, pp. 19-31. 28 Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. 102 |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Taylor | In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton
's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him), Taylor, Mary. The First Duty of Women. Emily Faithfull. 177 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Taylor | Her collaboration with John Stuart Mill
began in 1831 to 1832 with their casual exchange of essays on marriage and divorce. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press. 15 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ethel Mannin | EM
mentions spending her earlier years, whilst I was still serious, Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds. 74 Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds. 74, 75 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | 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... |
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