New York Times. New York Times Company.
(1 January 1984): BR20
Edward Gibbon
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Standard Name: Gibbon, Edward
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | Rachel leaves home on her voyage hoping to broaden her experience and come to understand herself and the world, but finds herself in a physical space and a society that are constricting. Although it seemed... |
| Education | P. L. Travers | Here she got through lots of reading, beginning with Gibbon
's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and proved inventive in breaking rules. She discovered the theatre through acting coach Lawrence Campbell
... |
| 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 | 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... |
| Reception | Mary Stewart | Roy Hoffman
in the New York Times found The Wicked Day[i]n almost every way . . . a highly enjoyable romance. |
| 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... |
| 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. 75 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. 162 |
| Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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.