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.
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Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In May 1823, his father's influence won JSM
a position as a clerk for the East India Company
. He worked there until his retirement in 1858, when the Crown took control of the company... |
Occupation | Helen Taylor | At twenty-five, despite her mother
's disapproval, HT
set out to attempt a career as an intellectual actress. 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. 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. 252 |
Author summary | John Stuart 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... |
Publishing | John Stuart Mill | Throughout 1846, JSM
co-authored several newspaper articles with Harriet Taylor
for the Morning Chronicle: on crime, politics, and domestic violence. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998. 79-100 |
Publishing | John Stuart Mill | From 1850 to 1851 Harriet Taylor
and JSM
published a series of articles against domestic violence in the Morning Chronicle. They pressed for assault laws to make domestic violence illegal. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press, 1998. 115 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 209 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. |
Reception | Sarah Austin | At the time that this translation appeared, an Edinburgh reviewer commended SA
's felicitous rendering of each original phrase . . . with accuracy and freedom. qtd. in Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985. 69 |
Reception | Anne Conway | Two of AC
's most recent editors, Coudert
and Corse
, more forcefully assert that hers is the most interesting and original philosophical treatise written by a woman in the seventeenth century Conway, Anne. “Introduction”. The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. vii - xxxiii. xxix |
Reception | Hildegarde of Bingen | In recent times she has made a rapid transition from being unknown to being fashionable for her music and moderately well known for her writings. Her letters were edited in English translation in 1994 and... |
Residence | John Stuart Mill | After being defeated in the general election of 1869, JSM
began to spend the greater part of his time in Avignon, where his wife, Harriet Taylor
, had died ten years before, and where... |
Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | JSM
published his essay On Liberty, which he described as a joint production Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. 176 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1635 (1859): 281-2 |
Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | Harriet Taylor
served as editor. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. 173 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | In 1853 JSM
and Taylor
published their anonymous pamphlet Remarks on Mr Fitzroy
's Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children. Their jointly written Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform appeared... |
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, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 209 |
Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | JSM
published Principles of Political Economy in two volumes, with substantial input from Harriet Taylor
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1074 (1848): 525-7 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage appeared in 1951. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 210 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. prelims |
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