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Collaboration & Authorship
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It is difficult to put together a list of Harriet Taylor Mill's writings, for the works which were published were done so under the name of John Stuart Mill or in collaboration with him. In addition, many of her letters and papers were destroyed after she died. These factors lead to debate over the actual author of the works, and when skepticism is combined with patriarchy, Harriet tends to lose out. What follows is a list of writings that may be attributed to Harriet Taylor Mill and the arguments for and against her authorship.
- Unpublished essays on the education of women, marriage and divorce, women's rights, violence and domestic abuse; also writings on ethics, religion, the arts, and more.
- Revised Mill's Principles of Political Economy
- Enfranchisement of Women (controversial because Mill once said he had written it)
- Collaboration with Mill in writing On Liberty, which some have seen as an elaboration on views Harriet expressed in earlier works
- Letters to John Stuart Mill, John Taylor, Helen Taylor, other family and friends, expressing ethical and political views, historical background, and evidence of collaboration
- Some poetry
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Reasons For Collaboration
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Reasons Against Collaboration
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JSM claimed he collaborated with HTM
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JSM was "besotted" by HTM's feminine wiles
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HTM was a decent though unhappily married woman
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HTM was an insensitive, domineering, disloyal
wife
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Letters of HTM and JSM show evidence of collaboration
and working together
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HTM was only a muse and copy editor for JSM
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JSM and HTM could not reconcile their views on
women's rights to employment
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JSM collaborated with other authors
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In her article, "Harriet Taylor Mill's Collaboration with John Stuart Mill," Jo Ellen Jacobs explains why she believes that the pair did indeed work together. I agree with her argument. My response paper can be read here .