My unsung hero of science: Harriet Taylor Mill, the radical feminist philosopher who lived in the shadow of her husband
I first heard about Harriet Taylor Mill when reading about her much more famous collaborator and future husband, the British philosopher and politician John Stuart Mill.
by Helen McCabe
Books by Harriet Mill at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/57060
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"We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to."
The Enfranchisement of Women (1851)
~Harriet Taylor Mill (8 October 1807 – 3 November 1858)
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