A series of five programmes on people who have played an important, sometimes decisive, part in the life and work of a famous man or woman.
2: The Love of Two Equals The friendship and marriage of John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor by PATRICIA PAVLEDIS with John Rye as Mill Lolly Cockerell as Harriet Taylor and John Bott
Rowena Roberts and Michael McStay Narrator Judy Parfitt
From 1830 to 1851 a ' passionate ' friendship and collaboration existed between Mill and Harriet Taylor , a married woman with three children. DurIng these years Mill wrote The System of Logic and Political Economy, of which he would have liked to name Harriet as joint author. The relationship was accepted by her husband, John Tay lor, ' an innocent, dull, good man'. When he died, Mill and Harriet married in 1851, but not until Mill, a convinced feminist, had formally renounced the conventional husband's rights over his wife. She died in 1858. Directed by Richard KEEN