Harriet Taylor
8 oktober 1807-3 november 1858
Läs om denna intressanta kvinnosakskvinna, vars tankar och idéer var oerhört radikala för sin tid.
Tillsammans med sin andre make, John Stuart Mill, skrev hon både böcker och artiklar — vilka enbart publicerades under makens namn.
Hon blev, precis som dagens kvinnor, hånad och baktalad av sin tids nättroll. Se här vad som sades och skrevs om henne:
“a philosopher in petticoats;”
“one of the meanest and dullest ladies in literary history, a monument of nasty self-regard, as lacking in charm as in grandeur”
a “tempestuous” “shrew;”
“a female autocrat;”
a “domineering, . . . perverse and selfish, invalid woman;”
a “vain and vituperative, proud and petulant” masochist;
“a very clever, imaginative, passionate, intense, imperious, paranoid, unpleasant woman.”
“one of the meanest and dullest ladies in literary history, a monument of nasty self-regard, as lacking in charm as in grandeur”
a “tempestuous” “shrew;”
“a female autocrat;”
a “domineering, . . . perverse and selfish, invalid woman;”
a “vain and vituperative, proud and petulant” masochist;
“a very clever, imaginative, passionate, intense, imperious, paranoid, unpleasant woman.”
Harriet has been branded everything short of wicked witch of the west by John’s biographers and historians of philosophy.
