Ann Robson

No Laughing Matter: John Stuart Mill's Establishment of Women's Suffrage as a Parliamentary Question

Of all my recollections connected with the H of C that of my having had the honour of being the first to make the claim of women to the suffrage a parliamentary question, is the most gratifying as I believe it to have been the most important public service that circumstances made it in my power to render. This is now a thing accomplished.…

John Stuart Mill and India.

Beginning as a junior clerk in 1823, John Stuart Mill spent thirty-five years as a colonial administrator in India House, the London headquarters of the East India Company, which dominated the Indian subcontinent. In his Autobiography, Mill paid scant attention to his long imperial career, and following his lead, later commentators have concluded that Indian administration was insignificant for Mills intellectual development. Rejecting the long-accepted interpretation, this book suggests that important parallels exist between Mills development as a thinker and his neglected India House career.