Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Helen Taylor
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Standard Name: Taylor, Helen
Birth Name: Helen Taylor
Pseudonym: Miss Trevor
Nickname: Lily
HT
wrote essays on suffrage and other feminist issues in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She also edited several volumes of work by others, often providing biographical sketches and introductions.
Her daughter Helen
, born on 27 July 1831, did not attend boarding school and remained with her mother.
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.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
208
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Taylor
Her children Algernon
and Helen
witnessed the union.
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.
169
Family and Intimate relationships
John Stuart Mill
Helen Taylor
, Taylor's daughter from her first marriage, became his companion and intellectual advisor in the years that followed.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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, 1924.
186
in the book. Her essay Enfranchisement of Women, published almost two decades earlier, is in several...
politics
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
BLSB
and other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherett
and Emily Davies
formed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning
...
politics
George Egerton
Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GE
attended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardie
and Henry Hyndman
, and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham
...
politics
Hannah Lynch
The League itself, headed by Anna Parnell
, was an off-shoot of the Irish Land League
, and was the very first political association of Irish women. Lynch was secretary of the London branch while...
Publishing
John Stuart Mill
In 1874 Helen Taylor
edited and published a collection of JSM
's works entitled Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism, later reprinted as Three Essays on Religion.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Residence
Harriet Taylor
The couple, along with Harriet's children Algernon
and Helen
, lived and worked in virtual retirement at Blackheath Park near London.
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.
FPC
was the only woman to write regularly for the progressive UnitarianTheological Review, with which she published two dozen essays between 1864 and 1877 (many of them collected in Hopes of the Human...
Textual Production
Emily Shirreff
In 1872 ES
probably contributed to the biographical notice in The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle edited by Helen Taylor
.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, 1872, 3 vols.
prelims
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, 1998, p. xi - xxxv.
xiii
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
502
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols.
209
Travel
Harriet Taylor
She and Mill regularly travelled together. Both in poor health in 1838, for example, they travelled to Italy and back through Germany. They took care, however, never to reveal to their friends before leaving...
Timeline
23 May 1865: The Kensington Society, a quarterly women's...
Building item
23 May 1865
The Kensington Society
, a quarterly women's discussion group devoted to social and political issues, held its inaugural meeting in London.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
106, 147
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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7 June 1866: John Stuart Mill presented to the House of...
