The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women
- 10/01/2024
- Posted by: Talib Hussain
enclose editorial explanations. Small ·dots· enclose material that has been added, but can be read as
though it were part of the original text. Occasional •bullets, and also indenting of passages that are not quotations,
are meant as aids to grasping the structure of a sentence or a thought. Every four-point ellipsis …. indicates the
omission of a brief passage that seems to present more difficulty than it is worth. Longer omissions are reported
between brackets in normal-sized type. The phrase ‘the subjection of women’ occurs quite often in this version,
because it helps to keep things clear; in Mill’s original it hardly occurs except in the title. The chapter-titles are
added in this version. So are the section-breaks and-titles; these are offered not as formal structure but only as
rough guides to where new topics are launched.—As a background to this work, you should know: In 1830 at the
age of 24 Mill formed an extremely close moral and intellectual friendship with Mrs Harriet Taylor; this continued,
with no sexual impropriety, until her husband died in 1851, whereupon she and Mill married. She died seven
years later, and the present work was written a few years after tha