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Standard Name: Taylor, Helen
Birth Name: Helen Taylor
Pseudonym: Miss Trevor
Nickname: Lily
HTwrote essays on suffrage and other feminist issues in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She also edited several volumes of work by others, often providing biographical sketches and introductions.
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Connections
| ConnectionsSort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Her daughter Helen, born on 27 July 1831, did not attend boarding school and remained with her mother. 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. 25 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols. 208 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Her children Algernonand Helenwitnessed the union. 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. 169 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Stuart Mill | Helen Taylor, Taylor's daughter from her first marriage, became his companion and intellectual advisor in the years that followed. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. 139 |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPCwas a friend of Emily Faithfull, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Rosa Bonheur, and she knew Josephine Butler, Augusta Webster, Lady Battersea, Emily Pfeiffer, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Helen Taylor |
| Intertextuality and Influence | John Stuart Mill | He credited his deceased wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, with all that is most striking and profound Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. 186 in the book. Her essay Enfranchisement of Women, published almost two decades earlier, is in several... |
| politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSBand other Langham feminists such as Jessie Boucherettand Emily Daviesformed the society for the discussion of political and social issues. The first meeting was held at the home of Charlotte Manning... |
| politics | George Egerton | Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GEattended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardieand Henry Hyndman, and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham... |
| politics | Hannah Lynch | The League itself, headed by Anna Parnell, was an off-shoot of the Irish Land League, and was the very first political association of Irish women. Lynch was secretary of the London branch while... |
| Publishing | John Stuart Mill | In 1874 Helen Tayloredited and published a collection of JSM's works entitled Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism, later reprinted as Three Essays on Religion. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Residence | Harriet Taylor | The couple, along with Harriet's children Algernonand Helen, lived and worked in virtual retirement at Blackheath Park near London. 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. 182 |
| Textual Features | Harriet Taylor | The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor, John Stuart Mill, Jane Welshand Thomas Carlyle, and Helen Taylor. |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | FPCwas the only woman to write regularly for the progressive UnitarianTheological Review, with which she published two dozen essays between 1864 and 1877 (many of them collected in Hopes of the Human... |
| Textual Production | Emily Shirreff | In 1872 ESprobably contributed to the biographical notice in The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle edited by Helen Taylor. Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979. 18 Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, 1872, 3 vols. prelims |
| Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | He had collaborated with Harriet Tayloron the manuscript, and her daughter Helenserved 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 |
| Travel | Harriet Taylor | She and Mill regularly travelled together. Both in poor health in 1838, for example, they travelled to Italy and back through Germany. They took care, however, never to reveal to their friends before leaving... |
Timeline
23 May 1865: The Kensington Society, a quarterly women's...
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23 May 1865
The Kensington Society, a quarterly women's discussion group devoted to social and political issues, held its inaugural meeting in London.
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927.
106, 147
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
150
7 June 1866: John Stuart Mill presented to the House of...
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7 June 1866
John Stuart Millpresented to the House of Commonsa suffrage petition signed by 1,499 women, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Jessie Boucherett, and Emily Davies.
Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
2, 5, 218
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Autumn 1867: The London National Society for Women's Suffrage...
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Autumn 1867
The London National Society for Women's Suffragewas formed under the direction of Frances Power Cobbe, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and others.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. What I Remember. Hyperion Press, 1976.
221
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970.
63-4
Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press, 1987.
186
Smith, Janet. “Helen Taylor’s Anti-imperial Feminism: Ireland and the Land League question”. Women’s History, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Mar.–31 May 2016, pp. 19-24.
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October 1881-December 1881: Mrs Surr and Helen Taylor, London School...
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October 1881-December 1881
Mrs Surrand Helen Taylor, London School Board members, exposed the terrible conditions at Upton House(industrial school for boys).
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
106
August 1884: The Democratic Federation (founded three...
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August 1884
The Democratic Federation(founded three years earlier by Henry Mayers Hyndmanand Helen Taylor) changed its name to the Social Democratic Federation.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Hyndman
Texts
Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873.
Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, 1994, p. vii - xxxv; various pages.
Mill, John Stuart. Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.
Mill, John Stuart et al. Sexual Equality. Editors Robson, Ann P. and John M. Robson, University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Taylor, Helen. The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered. Trübner, 1867.
Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, 1872, 3 vols.
Taylor, Helen. “Women and Criticism”. Macmillan’s Magazine, pp. 335-40.
