ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about John Stuart Mill and Mrs. Taylor. Mill's family and particularly his father, who died only in 1836, were seriously disturbed, and Mill himself withdrew increasingly from his old circle of friends and altogether broke with some who had dared to remonstrate with him. Only very few, especially the Carlyles, were allowed to make Mrs. Taylor's acquaintance. When Mill and Mrs. Taylor first met in 1830 he was 24 and she 23, married for four years to John Taylor, a wholesale merchant twelve years her senior, and already mother of two boys and soon to become mother of her third and last child, Helen Taylor, who in many ways was to continue her work. Mill was introduced to the Taylors by W. J. Fox, a Unitarian minister to whose congregation they belonged. In Fox's circle there were two remarkable girls, Sarah and Eliza Flower, one a composer and the other a poetess.
