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
Occupation Helen Taylor
At twenty-five, despite her mother 's disapproval, HT set out to attempt a career as an intellectual actress.
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.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
252
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 .
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 et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
112-13
She had an early love for...
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 et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
169
Helen was present at the ceremony, together with her brother Algernon.
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
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 et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
169
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.
502
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
139
For the rest of his life he spent some time every year staying at Avignon, where she had died.
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...
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.
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
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...
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.
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...
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.
186
in the book. Her essay Enfranchisement of Women, published almost two decades earlier, is in several...
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

Timeline

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

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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.