Notes to Mill’s Moral and Political Philosophy

1. Mill credits Harriet Taylor Mill with considerable influence on his views and his writings, especially the writing of On Liberty (see Autobiography 257–59 and Mill’s dedication to On Liberty). Mill’s relation to Harriet Taylor Mill is discussed in McCabe 2017 and Miller 2022. A stylometric analysis of Harriet Taylor Mill’s contributions to On Liberty is explored in Schmidt-Petri, Schefczyk, and Osburg 2022.

2. For discussion of Mill’s relation to colonialism, see Habibi 2017 and Skorupski 2021: 434–39.

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