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T. H. Green: Marriage, the Family Unit and Society

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As a member of the Liberal Party and a philosopher, T. H. Green and his wife Charlotte were equally committed to improving access to education to the whole of their Oxford society, ‘regardless of station, wealth, religion or gender.’ In the 1980s, Olive Anderson highlighted the fact that despite the increasing importance seen in the role of Greenian philosophy in politics, education and society at that time, his views on women and the family rarely featured in commentaries and monographs. There has been an increasing interest in Green and his followers’ contribution to society since Anderson’s article, and while the role of gender equality within his theory of moral progress, outlined in Chapter 3, and civic society is beginning to feature to a greater extent within publications and debates, there are still substantial gaps in how women applied Green’s ideas in their lives and through their work.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Nicholson, Collected Works of T. H. Green: Additional Writings, pp. xvii–xviii.

  2. 2.

    Anderson, “The Feminism of T. H. Green: A Late-Victorian Success Story?”

  3. 3.

    Nettleship, Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, Late Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Oxford, pp. 162–167.

  4. 4.

    John Addington Symonds and Phyllis Grosskurth, The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (London: Hutchinson, 1984), p. 290.

  5. 5.

    Somerville Hall changed to the name Somerville College in 1894.

  6. 6.

    Brittain, The Women at Oxford: A Fragment of History, p. 180.

  7. 7.

    Paul Harris, “Green’s Theory of Political Obligation and Disobedience,” in T. H. Green, ed. John Morrow (Routledge, 2018), pp. 198–199.

  8. 8.

    Somerville College Archive (SCA), typed transcripts of letters sent from Switzerland to Charlotte Green dated 1884 & 1885 from J. A. Symonds. Green, Prof. T. H. 1879–1882; Mrs. T. H. Green 1884–1929, reference SC/LY/AR/FB/Green.

  9. 9.

    Brittain, The Women at Oxford: A Fragment of History, p. 43.

  10. 10.

    W. H. Fairbrother, The Philosophy of Thomas Hill Green (London: Methuen, 1900); Nettleship, Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, Late Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Oxford; Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, with a Preface by Bernard Bosanquet.

  11. 11.

    Prolegomena to Ethics.

  12. 12.

    Balliol College Archives, Recollections of T. H. Green, Papers of T. H. Green, Fellow of Balliol BCAM.1b.

  13. 13.

    Nicholson, Collected Works of T. H. Green: Additional Writings, pp. xx–xxi.

  14. 14.

    SCA, Letter from Dorothy Ward to Miss Penrose, SC/GB/TR/GF/9(24).

  15. 15.

    Anderson, “The Feminism of T. H. Green: A Late-Victorian Success Story?,” p. 681.

  16. 16.

    Nettleship, Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, Late Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Oxford, p. 180.

  17. 17.

    Gordon and White, Philosophers as Educational Reformers: The Influence of Idealism on British Educational Thought and Practice, Introduction, pp. 9, 86–88. These men include: Bernard Bosenquet, T. H. Tawney, Charles Gore, Henry Scott Holland and Arnold Toynbee. Gordon and White also include Helen Bosenquet in this list alongside her husband.

  18. 18.

    Ibid., p. 10.

  19. 19.

    Carter, T. H. Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism, p. 36.

  20. 20.

    Ibid., pp. 32–36.

  21. 21.

    Ibid.

  22. 22.

    Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, with a Preface by Bernard Bosanquet, Lecture O, §233–245.

  23. 23.

    Prolegomena to Ethics, §190.

  24. 24.

    Ibid.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., §191.

  26. 26.

    This formed part of Green’s argument supporting the necessity of monogamous marriages in the development of a moral society. Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, with a Preface by Bernard Bosanquet, §241.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., §233.

  28. 28.

    Green qualified this: (i) ‘lunacy’ [sic] brought complications to the right to divorce and (ii) infidelity was not a criminal offence and therefore was not the responsibility of the state to punish either party.

  29. 29.

    Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, with a Preface by Bernard Bosanquet, §246.

  30. 30.

    Ibid., §242.

  31. 31.

    Prolegomena to Ethics, §246.

  32. 32.

    Ibid., §245.

  33. 33.

    Ibid., §354.

  34. 34.

    Ibid.

  35. 35.

    Ibid.

  36. 36.

    Ibid., §381. Green extended this argument to include those involved in creative pursuits and the arts.

  37. 37.

    Ibid.

  38. 38.

    Ibid., §310.

  39. 39.

    Colin Tyler, Civil Society, Capitalism and the State: Part 2 of the Liberal Socialism of Thomas Hill Green (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2012), Chapter 3.

  40. 40.

    Ibid., p. 56.

  41. 41.

    Ibid., p. 46.

  42. 42.

    Carter, T. H. Green and the Development of Ethical Socialism, Chapter II.

  43. 43.

    Jeannie Morefield, “Hegelian Organicism, British New Liberalism and the Return of the Family State,” History of Political Thought 23, no. 1 (2002).

  44. 44.

    Ibid., p. 158.

  45. 45.

    Ibid., p. 170.

  46. 46.

    Ibid.

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      Papers of T. H. Green, Fellow of Balliol BCAM.1b

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