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...central figure in Himmelfarb's thesis is Harriet Taylor, the imposing feminist whom the not so liberated Mill married two years after her first husband's death in 1849. Mill just met her in 1830, beginning 21 long and proper years of platonic intimacy. Widow of a prosperous merchant and mother of three children, this humorless firebrand longed for the Irish to stage a revolution to match France's, adding: "The Irish would, I should hope, not.be frightened but urged on by some loss of life...
...Himmelfarb indicates, Mill was not only "deferential" to Harriet's every wish but "respectful of her every opinion, quick to reverse himself on any issue." In the dedication to On Liberty, he characterized Harriet as "the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings." And Himmelfarb sees enough of Harriet's single-minded radicalism in the essay to pronounce her a collaborator in its spirit if not in its prose...
Natural Feeling. Nobody reads Mill today. If people did, Himmelfarb warns, they would discover a man who is often in contradiction with Harriet's Mill, the author of On Liberty. This other Mill spoke suspiciously of the "desires and impulses" and the "natural feeling" that the Liberty Mill so glorified. Mill understood that human nature was so far from naturally good that the ultimate object of education should be "restraining discipline." The man to whom conformity, obedience and even law were dirty words could demand, in another mood, the retention of capital punishment and call for a penal code...
...post is unprecedented. As Columnist Harriet Van Home wrote about the appointment: "Betty Friedan can eat her heart out, but one can't see either Richard Nixon or Gerald Ford setting up a department dealing with the feminine condition." In fact, Giscard at first tried to downgrade the Cabinet post to the head of a women's affairs bureau, but yielded when Giroud refused to accept such a position...
...seminar on the textile traditions of Native America and include both ancient and modern interpretations of centuries-old techniques and designs. While you're there don't forget to stop and see the original plaster cast of the clasped hands of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning made by Harriet Hosmer...