This month marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Harriet Taylor Mill. Unfulfilled in her marriage, she found companionship with the eminent philosopher John Stuart Mill. For nineteen years they conducted a scandalous relationship and together penned radical works on the rights of women, domestic violence and the wrongs of marriage, which culminated in The Enfranchisement of Women.
Jenni is joined by Jo Ellen Jacobs, editor of The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill and professor of Philosophy at Milikin University in Illinois, and by Dr Margaret Reynolds, broadcaster and reader of English at Queen Mary, University of London, to asses her legacy.
