Death
Harriet Taylor Mill died in Avignon after developing severe lung congestion, a consequence of tuberculosis on 3 November 1858. Her daughter Helen, who would become a well known feminist, completed the writing of The Subjection of Women with Mill.
Upon her death, Mill wrote:
| “ | Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom. | ” |
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