The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill · Character
George Grote
Radical historian and politician whose formidable pen helped Mill's circle strike its hardest early blow against Whig 'seesaw' politics.
supporting
Also known as Mr. Grote, Grote
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Grote belongs to the tight Philosophical Radical cohort around Mill and his father, the allies who launched the Westminster Review in 1824 against the Whig Edinburgh. His attacks on the governing classes' habit of…
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- Friendship
- Social
- Rivalry
- Other
Character groups
- Mill's Intellectual Circle
- Protagonist
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- John Stuart Mill
friendship · positive
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- John Black
social · positive
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
rivalry · negative
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