Record Number: 8949
Reading Experience:
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.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1810 and 31 Dec 1813
Country:England
Timemorning
daytime
other location: Solitary reading presumably at James Mill?s house in Newington Green, London; summarising and discussion while walking in the neighbourhood, ?generall
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland
Genre:Other religious, History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:8949
Source:John Stuart Mill
Editor:Jack Stillinger
Title:Autobiography
Place of Publication:Boston
Date of Publication:1969
Vol:n/a
Page:7
Additional Comments:
Authors John Rutty and Thomas Wight
Citation:
John Stuart Mill, Jack Stillinger (ed.), Autobiography, (Boston, 1969), p. 7, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8949, accessed: 25 November 2024
Additional Comments:
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.
