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 Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
She followed this with The Condition of Women (Blackwood's, February 1858), The Great Unrepresented (Blackwood's, September 1866), and Mill on The Subjection of Women (Edinburgh Review, 1869), as well...
Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
Blackwood's took a strong line against John Stuart Mill , and rejected an article on him by MO , which was then accepted by the Edinburgh Review.
Carson-Batchelor, Rhonda Lea. Margaret Oliphant: Gender, Identity, and Value in the Victorian Periodical Press. University of Alberta.
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In correspondence with the firm she...
Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
MO 's objections to fictional indecency are linked with objections to female emancipation. Nasty thoughts, ugly suggestions, an imagination which prefers the unclean, is [sic] almost more appalling than the facts of actual depravity...
Family and Intimate relationships Bessie Rayner Parkes
Joseph Parkes , Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about...
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...
Education C. E. Plumptre
Though nothing is know of CEP 's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which...
Textual Production Eleanor Rathbone
Rathbone's chapter originated as a paper entitled The Harvest of the Women's Movement, which she had delivered at Bedford College in November 1935 as one of the Fawcett Lecture series and printed under the...
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...
politics Mary Somerville
At the request of John Stuart Mill , MS was the first to sign his new parliamentary petition for women's suffrage .
She had had misgivings about supporting such a cause when it seemed to...
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.
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...
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 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/.
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
Textual Production Helen Taylor
HT edited John Stuart Mill 's Three Essays on Religion: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism and also contributed an Introductory Notice.
Mill, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer.
prelims, vii-xi
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

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