Considerations on Representative Government

Mill's 1869 argument for full legal and social equality between women and men, written with the ideas of Harriet Taylor Mill in mind. A founding text of liberal feminism that still reads with force.

John Stuart Mill

A short 1859 pamphlet where Mill proposes extending the vote, plural votes for the educated and the secret ballot debate. A compact preview of the ideas he later developed in Representative Government.

John Stuart Mill

Mill's 1868 pamphlet on the Irish land question, arguing that tenants should become owners of the land they farm. A bold reform proposal from his years as a member of Parliament.

John Stuart Mill

Mill's 1862 essay taking the side of the Union in the American Civil War and naming slavery as the real cause of the conflict. A short, sharp piece of political argument.

John Stuart Mill