Evidence: | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: among others, Millar?s Historical View of the English Government, a book of great merit for its time, and which he highly valued; Mosheim?s Ecclesiastical History, McCrie?s Life of John Knox, and even Sewell?s and Rutty?s Histories of the Quakers.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1810 and 31 Dec 1813 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning daytime |
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Place: | other location: Solitary reading presumably at James Mill?s house in Newington Green, London; summarising and discussion while walking in the neighbourhood, ?generall | ||||||||||
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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 |
Author: | Thomas McCrie |
Title: | Life of John Knox |
Genre: | Other religious, Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8952 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Stuart Mill | |
Editor: | Jack Stillinger | |
Title: | Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | Boston | |
Date of Publication: | 1969 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 7 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | John Stuart Mill, Jack Stillinger (ed.), Autobiography (Boston, 1969), p. 7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8952, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Since the initial, solitary reading experience (presumably alone at home) was explicitly carried out in preparation for oral summarising and discussion the following day (outdoors, with the reader?s father), the reading experience should be considered to encompass both of these activities ? hence that it has been recorded here as both ?silent? and ?aloud?, both ?solitary? and ?in company?, even though the reader does not state that he read aloud or in the company of his father. |
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