ABSTRACT
There is a great deal more in the same strain, and Mill’s friend the historian George Grote, was not far wrong when he said that ‘only John Mill’s reputation could survive such displays’.6 Others evidently did not think too much of the lady. Goldwin Smith7 remarked that ‘Mill’s hallucination as to his wife’s genius deprived him of all authority wherever that came in’, and T. Carlyle, who knew Mrs. Taylor well, thought that concerning her Mill ‘had got possessed of an idea, or, indeed, a series of ideas which were altogether absurd and unsupportable’.8
