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Henrietta Müller
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Standard Name: Müller, Henrietta
Birth Name: Frances Henrietta Müller
Indexed Name: F. Henrietta Muller
Indexed Name: Henrietta B. Muller
Indexed Name: Henrietta Miller
Indexed Name: Frances H. Müller
Pseudonym: Helena B. Temple
was a prominent activist for women's rights in the late-nineteenth century, who used her talents in the service of public reform. Best known for her radical opposition to taxation without representation, she became a popular speaker during her term as one of the first female members of the
. She subsequently took up the pen to further women's cause through her journalism, which led her to found the first women's newspaper in England. As both a writer and a speaker,
delivered a pointed critique of masculine domination alongside a typically Victorian sexual essentialism. She also connected her feminist politics with spiritual ideals, and edited or possibly ventriloquized books about Eastern religion.
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Müller, Henrietta. “Common Sense About Women”. Westminster Review, Vol.
lxiii
, pp. 155-6. Vivekananda, Swami. From Colombo to Almora: Seventeen Lectures. Editor Müller, Henrietta, The Vyjayanti Press, 1897.
Müller, Henrietta. “Schools in Florence”. Macmillan’s Magazine, Vol.
44
, pp. 480-8. Müller, Henrietta. “The Future of Single Women”. Westminster Review, Vol.
65
, No. 121, pp. 151-62. A. K. G.,. The Yoga of Christ; or, the Science of the Soul. Editor Müller, Henrietta, Theosophical Publishing Society, 1894.
Müller, Henrietta. “What Woman is Fitted For”. Westminster Review, Vol.
127
, No. 71, pp. 64-75.