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
Readers thought the translation so smooth that it...
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
and that...
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
with his deceased wife Harriet Taylor Mill .
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.
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