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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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.
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.
Textual Production Lydia Becker
LB published the pamphlet Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a Reply to Mr Fitzjames Stephen 's Strictures on Mr. J. S. Mill 's Subjection of Women.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was the only woman to write regularly for the progressive UnitarianTheological Review, with which she published two dozen essays between 1864 and 1877 (many of them collected in Hopes of the Human...
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.
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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 Production Robert Browning
Although reviews of Pauline were mixed, not a single copy was sold when he first released it. RB received some pretty fierce criticism from John Stuart Mill in an annotated review copy that he had...
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. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“The Early English Socialists”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1679, p. 247.
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Textual Production Helen Taylor
HT collaborated with John Stuart Mill on several projects. She assisted him in the completion of The Subjection of Women (1869) and edited his posthumous Autobiography(1873).
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.
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...
Textual Production George Eliot
Although GE helped the Westminster recover, according to The Leader, the former importance it acquired when under the editorship of John Stuart Mill ,
Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Chapman's period of management was marked by frequent financial...
Textual Production Harriet Taylor
It was inspired by the women's movement in the United States, which she saw as a new struggle for the enfranchisement of women; their admission, in law and in fact, to equality in all...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...
Textual Production Harriet Taylor
HT and her husband anonymously published a pamphlet, Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy 's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children.
Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press.
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Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press.
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