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
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.
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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...
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
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.
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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.
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.
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
When published later that year, it...
Residence Harriet Taylor
HT lived apart from her husband, John Taylor , at Walton-on-Thames, where Mill visited often.
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 Mary Augusta Ward
The suffrage plot is the vehicle for a conventional romance in which the misguided heiress of an English country estate is tutored in social responsibility, and finally in love, by an exemplary bachelor barrister. The...
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...
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 Features Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Extending Mill 's idea that the unemancipated woman was a danger to the community,
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press.
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MHVR argues that the pseudo-equality
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press.
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of limited enfranchisement is more dangerous than absolute oppression, and that the half-way house...
Textual Features Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The book's message put forward the philosophical beliefs of John Stuart Mill and her husband, focusing on individualism and the values of self-help. It was written in plain language, with simple illustrations.

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