Who is Harriot Taylor from On Liberty and what is their importance?

This English woman was a self educated intellectual. For many years she was an intellectual friend of John Stuart Mill's. Despite challenges that have grown more familiar in the contemporary coeducational atmospheres of the 20th and 21st centuries, the two were able to have a long term friendship while maintaining boundaries that respected her husband on one end and their need to carry on their relationship on the other end. She viewed herself as his intellectual inferior but this should not be misconstrued as many a brilliant man would have felt the same way.