Pioneers of Liberation

Essays on Sex Equality, by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill; edited and with an introduction by Alice S. Rossi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 242 pp.

At last John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill’s writings on the condition of women in Victorian society have been made available to the general reading public. And high time it is too. For although one occasionally tastes a 19thcentury flavor in these essays, drafted between 1831 or 1832 and 1861, they speak f...