Quotes by Harriet Taylor
1807 – 1858
Harriet Taylor was the long-time companion and eventually the wife of John Stuart Mill. She had a great influence on his thinking about the situation of women in Victorian Britain and co-wrote some articles with him. She also wrote a number of works on her own such as The Enfranchisement of Women (1851).
Bio
Taylor featured as the October 2020 OLL Birthday. Read it here.
Women’s Rights
Harriet Taylor wants to see “freedom and admissibility” in all areas of human activity replace the system of “privilege and exclusion” (1847)