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Record 8938

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
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:John Stuart Mill
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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Herodotus
Title: Histories
Genre: Classics, History
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8938  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Stuart Mill
  Editor: Jack Stillinger
  Title: Autobiography
  Place of Publication: Boston
  Date of Publication: 1969
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 5
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John Stuart Mill, Jack Stillinger (ed.), Autobiography (Boston, 1969), p. 5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8938, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Mill was translating the text under his father?s guidance, as part of his education in the Ancient Greek language.

 

 

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