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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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.
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She had an early love for...
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...

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