A Private Life of Michael Foot

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Prof Carl Rollyson. A Private Life of Michael Foot

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a Private Life of

Michael Foot

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Although at the time I agreed that this was good advice, I should have known that I would never take it. My vision of Jill’s biography—any biography I chose to write--took precedence over anyone else’s feelings. The truth came first, Dr. Johnson asserted, even at the cost of hurting others.1 But how I would pursue that truth in the light of Michael’s own trust in my judgment I had not decided upon.

At this point Mike’s second wife, Cornelia, joined the conversation and I asked her for her impressions of Jill. Cornelia felt Jill was conflicted, playing the good wife to Michael, but being a feminist. “There were those moments when she and Michael disagreed,” Cornelia said. “My dear child,” Mike broke in, imitating Michael’s habitual method of addressing Jill. “That must have been fun to watch,” I said. “It was fun,” Cornelia agreed, because “my dear child” would bring out the feminist in her. “All of a sudden she was on her hind legs snarling—sweetly snarling but snarling.”

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