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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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...
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.
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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...
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...

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