Helen Taylor (feminist)
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Helen Taylor (born July 27, 1831 in London , † January 29, 1907 in Torquay ) was an English suffragette.
Taylor was the daughter of John and Harriet Taylor , both Unitarians and friends of William Johnson Fox . Harriet Taylor later separated from her husband and married John Stuart Mill . Helen Taylor began training as an actress in 1856 and has appeared in Newcastle, Doncaster and Glasgow. After the death of her mother in 1858, she gave up her acting training and supported her stepfather, John Stuart Mill, as a housekeeper and secretary. She contributed to the completion of his book The Subjection of Women and worked closely with him for the next fifteen years.
She was also active in the women's rights movement and was a founding member of the Kensington Society , a discussion group for women that included Barbara Bodichon , Jessie Boucherett , Emily Davies , Francis Mary Buss , Dorothea Beale , Anne Clough , Louisa Smith , Alice Westlake , Katherine Hare , Harriet Cook , Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy, and Elizabeth Garrett . In 1867 she initiated a petition together with Lydia Becker and Frances Power Cobbe in support of Mill's initiative in the House of Commons for political equality for women and anonymously published the article The Ladies Petition in the Westminster Review , from which the pamphlet The Claims of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered arose.
In 1867, she founded Cobbe , Lydia Becker , Millicent Fawcett , Barbara Bodichon , Jessie Boucherett , Emily Davies , Francis Mary Buss , Dorothea Beale , Anne Clough , Lilias Ashworth Hallett , Louisa Smith , Alice Westlake , Katherine Hare , Harriet Cook , Elizabeth in 1867 Garrett , Priscilla Bright McLaren and Margaret Bright Lucas formed the London Society for Women's Suffrage , from which they separated the following year due to internal disputes. In 1870 she gave her first speech on women's suffrage.
Taylor was also active in local politics and was elected to the London School Board for Southwark in 1876 . In 1881 she became a member of the Social Democratic Federation . In 1885 she appeared together with Richard Pankhurst , a representative of the Liberal Party .
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| SURNAME | Taylor, Helen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1907 |
| Place of death | Torquay |