The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Auction listing affixed to front free endpaper. Mill served as one of the founders of the first women’s suffrage society, which developed into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and he presented the first petition on the subject to Parliament. “No one had a more rooted hatred for all oppression his advocacy of the equality of the sexes” (DNB). “During the seven years of his married life Mill published less than in any other period of his career, but four of his most closely reasoned and characteristic works, Liberty, the Utilitarianism, the Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform and the Subjection of Women… were thought out and partly written in collaboration with his wife” ( Britannica). Mill’s wife, Harriet Taylor, proved especially influential in developing this work her 1851 essay on the enfranchisement of women directly inspired it. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or speech have never been improved on” (PMM 345). “Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. Housed in custom clamshell box.įirst edition of Mill’s classic statement defining and defending the rights of women, scarce in original publisher’s cloth.

Octavo, original light orange cloth, uncut. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.

“THE INEQUALITY OF RIGHTS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN HAS NO OTHER SOURCE THAN THE LAW OF THE STRONGEST”:FIRST EDITION OF MILL’S SUBJECTION OF WOMEN, AN IMPORTANT, EARLY ARGUMENT FOR SEXUAL EQUALITY

The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill