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.
Photograph of a painting of Harriet Taylor by an unidentified artist, c. 1834. She is seen from the waist up against a backdrop of trees and sky. She wears a gown with yellow bodice and hugely puffed white sleeve. Her dark, smooth hair, centre-parted, is done in a bun behind and ringlets at her ears. A thin gold chain sits round her forehead, with a red gem at its centre matching another gem and drop pearl at her neckline. He face is stylised, with big eyes and a startled look. National Portrait Gallery.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Helen Taylor
Following Mill 's death, HT inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother 's grave.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
She arranged for the presentation in 1905 to Somerville College, Oxford
Travel John Stuart Mill
In autumn 1833 he joined Harriet Taylor in Paris while she was temporarily separated from her husband . This time together was in some way crucial to their relationship, though she was not yet prepared...
Textual Production John Stuart Mill
Harriet Taylor served as editor.
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press.
173
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production John Stuart Mill
In 1853 JSM and Taylor published their anonymous pamphlet Remarks on Mr Fitzroy 's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children. Their jointly written Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform appeared...
Textual Production John Stuart Mill
He had collaborated with Harriet Taylor on the manuscript, and her daughter Helen served as editor.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Taylor, Harriet. “Introduction”. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill, edited by Jo Ellen Jacobs et al., Indiana University Press, p. xi - xxxv.
xiii
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
502
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
209
Textual Production John Stuart Mill
JSM published Principles of Political Economy in two volumes, with substantial input from Harriet Taylor .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1074 (1848): 525-7
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor ; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage appeared in 1951.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
210
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
prelims
Textual Production John Stuart Mill
JSM published his essay On Liberty, which he described as a joint production
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press.
176
with his deceased wife Harriet Taylor Mill .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1635 (1859): 281-2
Residence John Stuart Mill
After being defeated in the general election of 1869, JSM began to spend the greater part of his time in Avignon, where his wife, Harriet Taylor , had died ten years before, and where...
Reception Sarah Austin
At the time that this translation appeared, an Edinburgh reviewer commended SA 's felicitous rendering of each original phrase . . . with accuracy and freedom.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press.
69
Readers thought the translation so smooth that it...
Reception Anne Conway
Two of AC 's most recent editors, Coudert and Corse , more forcefully assert that hers is the most interesting and original philosophical treatise written by a woman in the seventeenth century
Conway, Anne. “Introduction”. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge University Press, p. vii - xxxiii.
xxix
and that...
Reception Hildegarde of Bingen
In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and...
Publishing John Stuart Mill
Throughout 1846, JSM co-authored several newspaper articles with Harriet Taylor for the Morning Chronicle: on crime, politics, and domestic violence.
Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press.
79-100
Publishing John Stuart Mill
From 1850 to 1851 Harriet Taylor and JSM published a series of articles against domestic violence in the Morning Chronicle. They pressed for assault laws to make domestic violence illegal.
Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press.
115
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
209
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Author summary John Stuart 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...

Timeline

By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...

Writing climate item

By 20 May 1837

Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.

Texts

Taylor, Harriet. “Enfranchisement of Women”. Westminster Review.
Taylor, Harriet. “Enfranchisement of Women”. The Disenfranchised: The Fight for the Suffrage, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995, pp. 1-37.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. Essays on Sex Equality. Editor Rossi, Alice S., University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Taylor, Harriet. “Introduction”. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill, edited by Jo Ellen Jacobs et al., Indiana University Press, 1998, p. xi - xxxv.
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy’s Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children. Printed for private circulation, 1853.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. “Sentiment and Intellect: The Story of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill”. Essays on Sex Equality, edited by Alice S. Rossi, University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 1-63.
Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998.
Mill, John Stuart, and Harriet Taylor. “Wife Murder”. Morning Chronicle.