Autobiography (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- First Published: 1873
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Parents and children, Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Autobiography, England or English people, Fathers, Scotland or Scottish people, Reformers, Women’s rights, Biography, Great Britain, Victorian era or Victorianism, Reason or reasoning, Exceptional or gifted children or prodigies, Logic
Critical Evaluation:
The Autobiography is a unique and fascinating book, one of a handful likely to be read as long as nineteenth century Britain is remembered. It bears witness to the intellectual ferment that was part of the industrial and democratic revolutions of the time. Wider suffrage led to state-supported education in Britain and debate about its proper content. These circumstances supplied Mill’s chief motives for recording his life. He wished to recount his own intellectual development and mission in a period of cultural transition and to describe his...
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