Harriet Taylor Mill

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Harriet Taylor Mill

A bold 19th-century thinker, she wrote on liberty, marriage, and women’s equality at a time when those ideas were still treated as radical. Her partnership with John Stuart Mill helped shape some of the most influential political and feminist writing of the era.

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Enfranchisement of women : Reprinted from the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, for July 1851

Enfranchisement of women : Reprinted from the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, for July 1851

by Harriet Taylor Mill

About the author

Born in London in 1807, Harriet Taylor Mill became known as an essayist and philosopher whose work challenged the legal and social limits placed on women. She married John Taylor in 1826, and after his death she married John Stuart Mill in 1851.

She is especially remembered for her close intellectual partnership with Mill. Scholars continue to debate exactly how much she contributed to works published under his name, but both Mill’s own statements and later scholarship treat her as a serious thinker in her own right. Her essays, including writing on marriage and women’s rights, argue for equality, independence, and a wider moral and political freedom.

Harriet Taylor Mill died in Avignon, France, in 1858. Though for many years she was overshadowed by her famous husband, she is now widely recognized as an important voice in the history of liberal thought and early feminism.