title: Autobiography (Penguin Classics)
author:  John Stuart Mill 
description: <b>John Stuart Mill </b>(1806-73) was educated by his father and through his influence obtained a clerkship at India House. He formed the Utilitarian Society which met to read and discuss essays, and in 1825 he edited Benthams <b>Treatise upon Evidence</b>. In 1826 he suffered an acute mental crisis and found that poetry helped him recover the will to live, particularly the work of Wordsworth. Having reconsidered his aims and those of the Benthamite school, he met Harriet Taylor and she inspired a great deal of his philosophy. They married in 1851. <b>Utilitarianism </b>was published in 1861 but before that Mill published his <b>System of Logic </b>(1843), <b>Principles of Political Economy </b>(1848) and <b>On Liberty </b>(1839). His other works include his classic <b>Autobiography </b>(1873). Mill retired in 1858 and became the independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. He spent the rest of his life in France and died in Avignon.
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  # Autobiography
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John Stuart Mill
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION
  
  
  CHAPTER II. MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH. MY
  
  
  FATHER'S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS
  
  
  CHAPTER III. LAST STAGE OF EDUCATION, AND FIRST OF
  
  
  SELF-EDUCATION
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. YOUTHFUL PROPAGANDISM. THE “WESTMINSTER
  
  
  REVIEW”
  
  
  CHAPTER V. CRISIS IN MY MENTAL HISTORY. ONE STAGE
  
  
  ONWARD
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. COMMENCEMENT OF THE MOST VALUABLE
  
  
  FRIENDSHIP OF MY LIFE. MY FATHER'S DEATH. WRITINGS AND OTHER
  
  
  PROCEEDINGS UP TO 1840.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. GENERAL VIEW OF THE REMAINDER OF MY
  
  
  LIFE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Marc D'Hooghe.
  
  
  [Transcriber's note: between brackets [ ] some fragments are
  
  
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  concerning Mr. Mill's wife and stepdaughter (Helen Taylor)—an html ed.
  
  
  of this e-text, including index is pending.]
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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