Mill had believed in gender equality, he said, ‘from the very earliest period’ and revealed his commitment at the age of 18 in 1824 in his first published article in the Westminster Gazette. In it Mill argues ‘The legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself and one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.’ J.S.Mill’s book is, with Marx’s Capital, one of the two most important political books written in Britain in the nineteenth century. It is not coincidental that in 1906 Finland became the first European country where women had the vote. As soon as they had closed the book, they set up the Finnish Women’s Association to campaign for women in public life.
In a dynamic demonstration of the motivating power of the written word, a ladies’ literary discussion group read The Subjection of Women in 1883.
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