Edward Gibbon

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Standard Name: Gibbon, Edward

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alice Meynell
In the course of her evaluation of Ruskin AM dismissed Gibbon as having done more than any other to disorganise the English language.
Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi , Charlotte Smith , Edward Gibbon , Erasmus Darwin 's The Loves of the Plants...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM wrote to Macready in April 1823 about this play, or the idea for it; she was afraid he did not like it. She found the subject in Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the...
Textual Production Edith J. Simcox
She began work on this book as early as 1878.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
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Her wish was to create a History of Appropriation and she confided to her journal: my ambition would be satisfied by a place in...
Textual Features Hannah Brand
This heroic tragedy (full title Huniades; or, The Siege of Belgrade) is given with passages restored that were omitted in performance. It is set in 1456 (three years after Constantinople, capital of the Christian...
Textual Features Brigid Brophy
The title-piece is the last and longest in the volume. It belongs to the once-popular genre of dialogues of the dead. Its characters are Voltaire (who had been used this way several times before), Gibbon
Residence Dorothea Celesia
As well as their Genoan town house, the Celesia family had a country seat which Edward Gibbon reported as still wilder than Beriton or Buriton, his own family estate in below the South Downs in...
Reception Dorothea Celesia
A prologue by William Whitehead mentioned DC 's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics...
Reception Mary Stewart
Roy Hoffman in the New York Times found The Wicked Day[i]n almost every way . . . a highly enjoyable romance.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
(1 January 1984): BR20
Stewart herself apparently relished the irony of enrolling herself...
Occupation William Law
WL then worked as a tutor in the Gibbon family, finding a mediocre pupil in Edward (who grew up to be the father of the historian Edward Gibbon ) but a bright and rewarding pupil...
Literary responses Agnes Strickland
Despite intense controversy over its details, the work as a whole was a great popular success. It brought AS fame; it provided a quarry of subject-matter for historical painters; it brought begging letters (presumably written...
Literary responses Anna Kingsford
MacLeane half apologized, for his personal but not his literary judgements, in the issue of 10 April 1875: If . . . any reader of the review was led by it to form an opinion...
Literary responses Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The book received far less attention than Morgan's other recent publications. William Hazlitt , however, even though he shared her progressive political stance, rapped her over the knuckles in the Edinburgh Review for presuming to...
Literary responses Jan Morris
The TLS seemed inclined to blame Morris for projecting romanticism and sensibility onto the Victorians evoked in the text.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
3480 (7 November 1968): 1240
Assessing the next volume in the series, it asserted that the...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Hamilton
Agrippina the elder, grand-daughter of Augustus had defied the tyrannical rule of Tiberius . She was admired at this period as much as her namesake and daughter, Nero's mother, was abhorred. For Hamilton her story...

Timeline

By 1148: Anna Comnena finished the fifteen books of...

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By 1148

Anna Comnena finished the fifteen books of her Alexias, a history of the career and reign of her father, Alexius Comnenus , Emperor of Constantinople.

23 November 1752: George Ballard dated his preface to Memoirs...

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23 November 1752

George Ballard dated his preface to Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain . . . (better known as Memoirs of Eminent Ladies); it was published that year.

17 February 1776: Edward Gibbon published the first volume...

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17 February 1776

Edward Gibbon published the first volume of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; its mockingly sceptical fifteenth and sixteenth chapters caused a storm of controversy.

1780: In his poem An Essay on History, in three...

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1780

In his poemAn Essay on History, in three epistles to Edward Gibbon, William Hayley praised the ancient historian Anna Comnena .
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. The Victim of Fancy. Pickering and Chatto.
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Between 1788 and 1792: The historian Edward Gibbon composed no less...

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Between 1788 and 1792

The historian Edward Gibbon composed no less than six drafts of his autobiography, which remained unpublished during his lifetime.

31 March 1796: Edward Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, with...

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31 March 1796

Edward Gibbon 's Miscellaneous Works, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings were posthumously published by his literary executor, Lord Sheffield .

Texts

Gibbon, Edward. Gibbon’s Journey from Geneva to Rome: His Journal from 20 April to 2 October 1764. Editor Bonnard, Georges A., Nelson, 1961.
Gibbon, Edward. Letters. Editor Norton, J. E., Cassell and Company, 1956.
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . . . With variorum notes including those of Guizot, Wenck, Schreiter, and Hugo. George Bell, 1885.