Record Number: 8942
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1809 and 31 Dec 1814
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
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solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:20 May 1806
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Administrator in the East India Company (joins the company as a clerk in 1823, retires as chief of his office and Examiner of India Correspondence in
Religion:Atheist
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Cyropaedia
Genre:Classics, History
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:8942
Source:John Stuart Mill
Editor:Jack Stillinger
Title:Autobiography
Place of Publication:Boston
Date of Publication:1969
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Page:5
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Citation:
John Stuart Mill, Jack Stillinger (ed.), Autobiography, (Boston, 1969), p. 5, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8942, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Mill was translating the text under his father?s guidance, as part of his education in the Ancient Greek language. He reveals on p.6 that, since there were no available dictionaries he could use, he had to interrupt his father?s work (on his History of India) to ask him for the meaning of all words unfamiliar to him at the time.
