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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 139 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Her daughter Helen
, born on 27 July 1831, did not attend boarding school and remained with her mother. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951. 25 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985. 208 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Her children Algernon
and Helen
witnessed the union. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951. 169 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
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, 1924. 186 |
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. |
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, John Stuart Mill, and Harriet Taylor. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press, 1951. 182 |
Textual Features | Harriet Taylor | The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor
, John Stuart Mill
, Jane Welsh
and Thomas Carlyle
, and Helen Taylor
. |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | |
Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | He had collaborated with Harriet Taylor
on the manuscript, and her daughter Helen
served as editor. British Library Catalogue. Taylor, Harriet. “Introduction”. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill, edited by Jo Ellen Jacobs, Paula Harms Payne, Jo Ellen Jacobs, and Paula Harms Payne, 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. 209 |
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. 18 Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle. Taylor, HelenEditor , Longmans, Green, 1872. prelims |
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 discussion group devoted to social and political issues, held its inaugural meeting in London.
7 June 1866
John Stuart Mill
presented to the House of Commons
a suffrage petition signed by 1,499 women, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Emily Davies
.
Autumn 1867
The London National Society for Women's Suffrage
was formed under the direction of Frances Power Cobbe
, Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, and others.
October 1881-December 1881
Mrs Surr
and Helen Taylor
, London School Board members, exposed the terrible conditions at Upton House
(industrial school for boys).
August 1884
The Democratic Federation
(founded three years earlier by Henry Mayers Hyndman
and Helen Taylor
) changed its name to the Social Democratic Federation.