ABSTRACT
In July and early August 1855 John Stuart Mill and his wife went with Haji and Lily to Switzerland, travelling slowly to Geneva during the last week of July and visiting Chamonix later. At the end of this tour, while Mrs. Mill went on to Paris, Mill left her at Besancon to go for a week's walking tour to the French Jura. Mill appears to have joined his wife at Boulogne about a week later and to have reached London after another ten days, about the last day of August. In the autumn of 1856 Helen Taylor at last obtained her mother's consent to her trying her luck on the stage. Mill returned to England two or three weeks after his wife's death, he had bought the small house within sight of the cemetery in the suburb of Saint-Veran of Avignon where his wife had been buried.
