Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women’s Suffrage, Held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12, 1871.
First edition of Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women's Suffrage
Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women’s Suffrage, Held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12, 1871.
MILL, John Stuart.
$2,500.00
Item Number: 135941
Edinburgh: Printed by John Lindsay, For The Edinburgh National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1873.
First edition of the posthumously printed transcription of Mill’s famed speech in support of women’s suffrage. Octavo, bound in paper-covered boards. In very good condition. Embossed stamp. Exceedingly rare.
English philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill was the second Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage after Henry Hunt in 1832. In 1866, he became the first person in the history of Parliament to call for women to be given the right to vote, vigorously defending this position in subsequent debate. He also became a strong advocate of such social reforms as labor unions and farm cooperatives. In Considerations on Representative Government, he called for various reforms of Parliament and voting, especially proportional representation, the single transferable vote, and the extension of suffrage.
