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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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...
Occupation John Stuart Mill
In May 1823, his father's influence won JSM a position as a clerk for the East India Company . He worked there until his retirement in 1858, when the Crown took control of the company...
Family and Intimate relationships John Stuart Mill
In 1830 JSM met Harriet Taylor , who was married at the time, through William Fox .
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.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
208
Their intense friendship, based on similar intellectual and political pursuits, scandalized their social circle. Apparently Roebuck and...
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...
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...
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.
Unitarian minister William Fox , and feminist writer Harriet Taylor (who was no...
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
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
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...
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.
189
she was also suspicious of her, 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.
30
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
A great affection developed between him and Sarah, whom he addressed by the title of Mutter. However, his feelings cooled during the...
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...

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