03/25/2026
Many people know John Stuart Mill’s "On Liberty," but far fewer know Mill’s wife and intellectual collaborator, Harriet Taylor Mill. Harriet was a pioneering thinker whose influence on Mill’s work was profound. Throughout his life, John Stuart Mill advocated for the recognition of Harriet’s intellectual ability. Mill described "On Liberty" as collaborative, stating it “was more directly and literally our joint production than anything else which bears my name, for there was not a sentence of it that was not several times gone through by us together, turned over in many ways, and carefully weeded of any faults."