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Edward Gibbon
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Standard Name: Gibbon, Edward
Connections
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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... |
Education | Catherine Cookson | As a young adult CC
took on her own education. With varying degrees of success she studied grammar, elocution, French, and the violin. She also discovered the public library. Colleagues at work got her to... |
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... |
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
... |
Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | As a widow, Lady Elizabeth received a proposal of marriage from Edward Gibbon
; she turned him down. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's stepmother, born Lucy Elstob
, was a distant relation of the scholar Elizabeth Elstob
. |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | DC
's birth family had accustomed her to moving in literary, political, and theatrical circles, and her friends included Mary Lady Hervey
, David Hume
, David Garrick
, and Edward Gibbon
. Her father... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothea Celesia | Gibbon
visited DC
again in May and June 1764 in Genoa (where he was staying after finding Venice impossibly expensive). Again she received him with a friendliness beyond mere politeness and introduced him to some... |
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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
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... |
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.