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	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	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	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
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	The petition was presented to Parliament by John Stuart Mill on 7 June 1866.
politics	Emily Davies	ED 's belief in equal rights and treatment for women led to her support for the suffrage cause. She was involved in the formation of a London suffrage committee later that year, but chose a...
politics	E. Nesbit	EN and her husband were early members of the Fabian Society . They hoped to see radical change in society, though Hubert Bland was also capable of cynicism and of making fun of his fellow...
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	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	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	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	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	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...

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