Webelizabeth stuart phelps's the silent partner (1871) starts with this truth and seeks to articulate the phenomenon of inarticulateness and to give voice to the fact of voicelessness. Webphelps’s 1870 the silent partner portrays a businesswoman who engages with john stuart mill’s liberal political economic theories to question the prevailing. Webafter her father suddenly passes away, perley kelso is left partial ownership of a mill. However, since it was socially unacceptable for a woman to own property or have a. Webthe novel focuses on sip, a mill worker, and miss kelso, the silent partner in the mill after her father’s death. The lives of these two women intersect as worker and owner as they. Webthough the tall, dark, handsome and silent male may be a common figure in the popular imagination, in fact it is men who talk and women who are silent. “i shall miss you,' said perley. 'of course i shall miss you, maverick. So should i miss the piano, if it were taken out of the parlor. ”.
