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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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, 1998. 77 |
| 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, 1994. 87 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 209 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
| 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 | 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, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 216 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 208 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
| 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, 1995, p. xi - xv. xi Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 209 |
| 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 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, 1998. 92 |
| 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... |
| 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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