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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Textual Features	Margaret Oliphant	MO 's objections to fictional indecency are linked with objections to female emancipation. Nasty thoughts, ugly suggestions, an imagination which prefers the unclean, is [sic] almost more appalling than the facts of actual depravity...
Textual Features	Millicent Garrett Fawcett	The book's message put forward the philosophical beliefs of John Stuart Mill and her husband, focusing on individualism and the values of self-help. It was written in plain language, with simple illustrations.
Textual Production	Robert Browning	Although reviews of Pauline were mixed, not a single copy was sold when he first released it. RB received some pretty fierce criticism from John Stuart Mill in an annotated review copy that he had...
Textual Production	Eleanor Rathbone	Rathbone's chapter originated as a paper entitled The Harvest of the Women's Movement, which she had delivered at Bedford College in November 1935 as one of the Fawcett Lecture series and printed under the...
Textual Production	Harriet Taylor	It was inspired by the women's movement in the United States, which she saw as a new struggle for the enfranchisement of women; their admission, in law and in fact, to equality in all...
Textual Production	Florence Nightingale	John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Jowett both read an early draft as part of Suggestions for Thought, 1860. Although impressed, both men advised Nightingale not to publish. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago, 1978. 395
Textual Production	Helen Taylor	HT edited John Stuart Mill 's Three Essays on Religion: Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism and also contributed an Introductory Notice. Mill, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874. prelims, vii-xi Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Textual Production	George Eliot	Although GE helped the Westminster recover, according to The Leader, the former importance it acquired when under the editorship of John Stuart Mill , qtd. in Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968. 108 Chapman's period of management was marked by frequent financial...
Textual Production	Margaret Oliphant	She followed this with The Condition of Women (Blackwood's, February 1858), The Great Unrepresented (Blackwood's, September 1866), and Mill on The Subjection of Women (Edinburgh Review, 1869), as well...
Textual Production	Harriet Taylor	HT and her husband anonymously published a pamphlet, Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy 's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children. Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1994. 92-3 Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. 180
Textual Production	Harriet Taylor	John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor ; Their Correspondence [i.e.Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage was published. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 210
Textual Production	Frances Power Cobbe	On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...
Textual Production	Mary Agnes Hamilton	Mary Agnes Hamilton contributed to Hamish Hamilton 's Makers of the New World series a short biography entitled John Stuart Mill. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “The Early English Socialists”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1679, 5 Apr. 1934, p. 247. 247
Textual Production	Helen Taylor	HT collaborated with John Stuart Mill on several projects. She assisted him in the completion of The Subjection of Women (1869) and edited his posthumous Autobiography(1873). 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, 1990.
Textual Production	Lydia Becker	LB published the pamphlet Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a Reply to Mr Fitzjames Stephen 's Strictures on Mr. J. S. Mill 's Subjection of Women. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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