AutobiographyBy: John Stuart Mill One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806 73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian liberal thinker, whose works including On Liberty, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women and this Autobiography are among the crowning achievements of the age.