SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Harriet Taylor Mill, John Stuart Mill, Monthly Repository

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

After the death of taylor, mill wrote his autobiography and of her major influence on his work. Most people thought this was just conjecture but many realised, some before the autobiography publication, that she radically changed and influenced mill. Taylor married young to a man who shared her unitarian dissenter religion and give asylum to foreign refugees from tyrannical london. Taylor, through her husband, became part of the elite circle headed by william john fox the most prominent of unitarians who wrote for/owned the monthly repository. After recovering from the birth of her second son taylor spoke to fox about philosophical issues. Fox then introduced taylor to mill who shared taylor s views and understood her capacity for thought. After her 3rd child taylor began writing regularly for the monthly repository as well as mill. Mill was her teacher and they both focused on how people thought no the particular content.