Autobiography

John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was to a very large extent a product of an experiment of his father - a child genius, a troubled man. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works - including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women - are among the crowning achievements of the age. In this autobiography, he describes how he found meaning in life through new friendships such as that of John Sterling and Frederick Denison Maurice and from nature and music.