Abstract
The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill (1998) promises to shed light on Taylor's status as a thinker. Its editor, Jo Ellen Jacobs, fosters this hope, writing [End Page 94] that "An assessment of Harriet Taylor Mill's contribution to the history of philosophy must commence [by reading all of her work]" (xxxv). So far most discussion of Taylor has addressed her influence on her second husband, John Stuart Mill. On the one hand is the eloquent testimony Mill pays to her intelligence and sensitivity in his Autobiography (1969) and On Liberty (1989). On the other are attempts by some Mill scholars to attribute his exaggerated praise of an ordinary intellect to the excesses of uxoriousness. Reading Taylor's 1851 essay "Enfranchisement of Women" in Alice Rossi's collection Essays on Sex Equality (1970) inclined me toward Mill's assessment of her abilities. This incisive and finely written piece obviously informed Mill's subsequent arguments in The Subjection of Women (1989).
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