1951 John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship & Marriage, 1st Edition

F. A. Hayek

Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1951

About this Item

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor. Their Correspondence and Subsequent Marriage. By F. A. Hayek. The University of Chicago Pres, Chicago Illinois. 1951. Presumed First Edition. Original Dust jacket. 320 pp, 8.5 x 5.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Dust jacket is chipped at top edge of rear cover & at head of rear hinge. Dust jacket s spine toned from sun-exposure/shelf-wear. Head of front flap s hinge split. Normal rubbing to jacket s hinges and edges. Green cloth boards lightly rubbed at edges and bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt lettering bright and clean. Previous ownership bookplate found on front paste-down: William & Carolina Purcell. Light toning throughout text-block. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Harriet Taylor Mill (born Harriet Hardy; 1807 1858) was an English philosopher and 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 Works of John Stuart Mill, especially volume XXI. In 1830, Taylor Mill then Harriet Taylor met John Stuart Mill. How they met is the subject of some speculation, but some suggest it was planned by the leader of Taylor's Unitarian Congregation. John Taylor invited Mill to dinner because of his wife's mutual interest in women's rights. Her friendship with Mill quickly blossomed. Taylor was attracted to Mill, who treated her as an intellectual equal. Around eighteen months later, something made Taylor break off their friendship, causing Mill to write her a passionate love letter in French (the only piece of correspondence surviving from either for this period of their relationship) in which he refuses to accept her 'eternal adieu', and, although saying 'her wish is his command', insists 'her path and mine are separated, she says; but they can, they must, meet again'. Evidently, she agreed, for they were soon closer than ever, exchanging a pair of lengthy essays, On Marriage, in 1833. RAREA1951ABEB 06/24 - HK1750.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1951 John Stuart Mill & Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship & Marriage, 1st Edition
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
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