James Mill

After FB became a published author, in the early 1830s, she embarked on an ambitious programme of reading, drawing on books in several languages. Her English friend Frances Lewin helped her in studying James Mill

During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. He provided her...

Despite their efforts to avoid scandal, HT 's relationship with John Stuart Mill remained the subject of much gossip. Rumours travelled through London's Unitarian circles. Both Mill's father, James Mill , and his friend...

His father, James Mill , was a historian and head of the East India Company 's examiner's office; his son's autobiography introduces him as author of The History of British India, 1817.

Friends of LDG 's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham , theCarlyles , James Mill , Macaulay , and Sydney Smith . Her own childhood friends included her...

Bentham took an interest in Wright as a political dissenter who exalted the American political system and was scorned by English Tories. He praised her activities and was curious about the personal history that had...

This first volume argues strenuously that anomalies in national institutions will have pernicious effects on the laws and ultimately imperil the union itself. Within this context HM refers both to the system of chattel slavery...

SA taught German to Charles Buller , and to both James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill .

Parental influences inclined both SA and her husband towards radicalism and ultra-Liberal opinions. Later, her husband impressed her with the political opinions he had derived from his army experience, during which he began to...

After they were married, the couple moved to No. 1 Queen Square, Westminster; their neighbours included Mill and Bentham .

The Appeal consists of two parts: the first is an examination and rebuttal of Mill 's arguments, and the second consists of questions posed and answered. Marriage is critiqued as being not a contract but...

The title continues: To Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic, Slavery. Wheeler's name did not appear on the original title-page, but Thompson claimed that she was responsible for the much of...

Her older friend Lucy Aikin considered the scheme presumptuous and composed a letter to HM advising her to abandon it for humbler tasks more appropriate to her age and gender, but she held off sending...