John Stuart Mill

20 May 1806 - 07 May 1873

Standard Name: Mill, John Stuart

Used Form: J. S. 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. Best-known to feminists is Of the Subjection of Women, 1869. Harriet Taylor , whom he married after her husband's death, was a major influence on him.

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politics	Josephine Butler	Despite her ill health, JB began in the spring of 1869 to direct her energies towards a new cause, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Perhaps following the advice of Princess Victoria , who...
politics	Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence	Among the women present at the meeting was Emily Davies , who had presented her arguments for female suffrage to John Stuart Mill when he took the first petition advocating female enfranchisement before Parliament on...
politics	Florence Nightingale	In early 1866 FN signed John Stuart Mill 's petition for women's suffrage. She and Mill also exchanged a series of letters on the issue. Although she signed the petition, she thought that married women's...
politics	Mary Carpenter	MC 's biographer wrote: Her peculiar sense of womanliness rendered her at first unfavourable to the claim for Women's Suffrage. But contact with John Stuart Mill , and observing the power of legislation to effect...
politics	Anna Swanwick	In 1865 AS signed the petition to parliament for women's enfranchisement, which was presented by John Stuart Mill on 7 June 1866. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics	Harriet Beecher Stowe	HBS remained fairly indifferent to women's rights for a long time. As late as 1869, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wanted her to publish a story on the issue, HBS commented that...
politics	Helen Taylor	It is possibly the only time she shared a stage with Mill . Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 279
politics	Mary Somerville	At the request of John Stuart Mill , MS was the first to sign his new parliamentary petition for women's suffrage . She had had misgivings about supporting such a cause when it seemed to...
politics	Geraldine Jewsbury	GJ frequently raised questions about women's position in society in her novels; however, she could also be extremely critical of suffragists in her writing and letters: Why cannot women make themselves into natural human beings...
politics	Fanny Kingsley	FK 's only documented political engagement occured in the summer of 1869, when both she and Charles Kingsley attended a Women's Suffrage meeting in London at the invitation of John Stuart Mill , whose book...
politics	Matilda Betham-Edwards	Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...
politics	Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda	That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU , organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged...
politics	Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon	Barbara Leigh Smith (later BLSB ) read John Stuart Mill 's Principles of Political Economy. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 18
politics	Isa Craig	Together with feminist colleagues Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Bessie Rayner Parkes , and Emily Davies , IC helped publicise John Stuart Mill's parliamentary nomination. Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus, 1998. 216
politics	Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon	BLSB and the Langham Place feminists strongly supported John Stuart Mill 's campaign for office. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 150

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