Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Edward Gibbon
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Standard Name: Gibbon, Edward
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Elinor Glyn | After Elinor Sutherland (later EG
) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather
's book collection, which had recently... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Beatrice Harraden | This novel's central episode of a chance encounter between strangers became one of BH
's favourite themes. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Kingsford | The title story, Rosamunda the Princess, takes place in Dark Age Italy in the political turmoil that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Rosamund's story is recounted in Edward Gibbon
's History of... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. qtd. in Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape, 1947. 162 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Here she began to gather the circle of friends which by the end of her long life had touched every cranny of English society. She had already met Edmund Burke
in Bristol the previous September... |
| 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 |
| 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, 1961. 75 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Stevenson | Her mother, Louise (Destler)
, was the wife of a student when she bore her eldest daughter, and herself read Gibbon
's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while nursing. She then had... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
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