Harriet Taylor
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Standard Name: Taylor, Harriet
Birth Name: Harriet Hardy
Married Name: Harriet Taylor
Married Name: Harriet Mill
Indexed Name: Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
Used Form: Harriet Taylor Mill
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
on philosophical, political, and critical works which appeared under his name.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | John Stuart Mill | She edited the work and also pointed out the need for a chapter on the labouring classes. Mill considered that this chapter in particular reflected her ideas and in many cases her wording of them... |
Education | Helen Taylor | HT
was educated by her constant companion, her mother
. Although she never attended school, she read widely in English, French and German, and studied history and religion. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951. 112-13 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Taylor | HT
's mother was Harriet (Hardy) Taylor
, known for her feminism, her writings, and her association with John Stuart Mill
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Stuart Mill | In 1830 JSM
met Harriet Taylor
, who was married at the time, through William Fox
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985. 208 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Taylor | Two years later, Harriet Taylor
married John Stuart Mill
, who had already shared her life and that of her children for some time. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951. 169 |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Stuart Mill | On 21 April 1851 JSM
married Harriet Taylor
, two years after the death of her husband. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951. 169 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Flower Adams | William Bridges Adams
wrote for the Monthly Repository under the pseudonym Junius Redivivus, and met his future wife through Harriet Taylor
. Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922. 37 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Stuart Mill | Taylor
's death in November 1858 was a heavy blow to him. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. 502 Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. 139 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Flower Adams | As her father
established himself socially and politically within the Dalston community, she became involved in London's literary and intellectual circles. Among those she met, William James Linton
, John Stuart Mill
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Austin | John Stuart Mill
became like an adopted son to the Austins. Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985. 30 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | On moving to London the Carlyles were introduced to Harriet Taylor
through John Stuart Mill. Although JWC
felt that Harriet was a woman she could really love, Hanson, Lawrence, and Elisabeth Hanson. Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Octagon Books, 1975. 189 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | In London, ED
met John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
. At Emily Faithfull
's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig
, and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope
, Louis Blanc |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Guests at the Regent's Park home included her mother's second cousin Harriet Martineau
, Her mother's grandmother and Martineau's grandmother were sisters. |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton
, a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne
and Lord Monteagle
; writers William Thackeray
, Charles Dickens
, Emily Eden
, Elliot Warburton
, Alfred Tennyson |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Stuart Mill | He credited his deceased wife, Harriet Taylor Mill
, with all that is most striking and profound Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. 186 |
Timeline
By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.