Personal Representation and the Second Reform Act, 1859–1867

Abstract

‘Have you seen Hare’s book on Representation?’, John Stuart Mill enquired in a letter to George Cornewall Lewis on 20 March 1859. ‘I think it both a monument of intellect, and of inestimable practical importance at the present moment’, he wrote. ‘His suggestions appear to me the real basis of a reconciliation between Radicalism and Conservatism.’¹