In 1851, John Stuart Mill married Harriet Taylor. She was a significant influence on Mill's work and reinforced his advocacy of women's rights. Mill treated his wife as his intellectual equal<ref>The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill, Chapter 5</ref> and so Taylor was able to publish a great deal of her own work, such as "The Enfranchisement of Women".
John Stuart Mill is regarded as being a [[classical liberallliberal]]<ref>[ https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/parliamentary-collections/1866-suffrage-petition/john-stuart-mill/]</ref>, among the likes of [[Thomas Paine]]<ref>Lamb, Robert. "Liberty, Equality, and the Boundaries of Ownership: Thomas Paine's Theory of Property Rights." Review of Politics (2010)</ref> and [[John Locke]]<ref> Steven M. Dworetz, The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution (1989)</ref>. This is due to his favour of free market, albeit with some government intervention such as a tax on alcohol, and his belief in social liberalism, detailed in his magnum opus, [[On Liberty]].
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