Harriet Taylor Mill


Harriet Taylor Mill née Hardy; 8 October 1807 – 3 November 1858 was the British philosopher in addition to women's rights advocate. Her extant corpus of writing can be found in The Complete works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Several pieces can also be found in The Collected working of John Stuart Mill, especially volume XXI.

Death and recognition


Harriet Taylor Mill died in a Jo Ellen Jacobs has argued that the realise of death may work been syphilis contracted from her number one husband. However, this posthumous diagnosis is contested.

Upon her death, John Stuart Mill wrote:

Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater good to it, than is ever likely to occur from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her any but unrivalled wisdom.

At the Berlin School of Economics and Law, the Harriet Taylor Mill Institute for Economics and Gender Studies, founded in 2001, was named after her. She was spoke as one of the Philosopher Queens in the book of that name in 2020.