SOURCE: “Mrs. John Stuart Mill: A Vindication by Her Granddaughter,” in Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. 71, 1912, pp. 357-63.

In the following essay, Taylor refutes an earlier article questioning both Harriet Taylor's intellect as well as her influence on John Stuart Mill.

In an article entitled ‘Famous Autobiographies,’ by an anonymous writer in the Edinburgh Review for October, certain statements have been made that must have grated upon all admirers of John Stuart Mill, accustomed as they are to pay respect to the memory of the woman whom he loved with unfailing constancy from youth to the day of his death; and also to that of his step-daughter, who, at the sacrifice of her best years, which she had desired to devote to her own chosen career, did her utmost to fill in some measure the void in his life caused by the death of Mrs. Mill, and to...