Harriet Taylor Mill, UK (1808-1858)
She was one of the first writers in England to press for women's rights and suffrage. Her essays in the 1850s authoritatively rejected the legal and political traditions subordinating women.
She suggested that improvement in a woman's position lay in politics, education, and law. Advocating women's suffrage as early as 1851, she promoted full legal and political citizenship, as well as equality in higher education.
Teamed with her husband, John Stuart Mill, she inspired The Subjection of Women (1869), which provoked great antagonism because of its views on marriage and the status of women.