 Alice Rossi criticizes this “minimalist” approach to estimating Taylor Mill’s influence on Mill when she observes that “one senses in Mill scholars an unwitting desire to reject Harriet Taylor as contributing in any significant way to the vigor of Mill’s analysis of political and social issues unless it included some tinge of sentiment or political thought the scholar disapproved of, in which case the disliked element was seen as Harriet’s influence” (1970, 44–5). Some commentators, however, have inclined toward a “maximalist” stance. Chief among these is Jacobs, whose basic interpretative approach is to take Mill’s characterizations of Taylor Mill and their collaboration at face value, although she departs from this practice when she believes that there is evidence that Mill may not have given Taylor Mill the full credit she was due. For example, in an unpublished essay Taylor Mill writes that