ABSTRACT
T. H. Green's metaphysics and moral philosophy were the foundation of this as of every other aspect of his thought. Green was as much the philosopher of positive equality as of positive liberty. Green considered the historical as well as the analytical questions raised by family rights, which antedated the state. Plainly Green's ideas and actions both entitle him to be included among the very diverse band of later nineteenth-century feminists. In short, Green preached the emancipation of women within the family as wholeheartedly as John Stuart Mill, and arguably even more consistently and categorically. Early twentieth-century feminists can be found in at least as many different guises as early twentieth-century Greenites. Living and working in a settlement undoubtedly gave many late-Victorian and Edwardian middle-class women new freedom and new opportunities, whether they did so from idealism, religious commitment, a desire for novelty and independence, or simple curiosity.
