Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
John Baker Holroyd first Earl of Sheffield
Standard Name: Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Lord Sheffield
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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composed no less than six drafts of his autobiography, which remained unpublished during his lifetime.
Pocock, John Greville Agard. “The Ironist”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 13-17.
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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
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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Gibbon, Edward. The Miscellaneous Works, of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. Editor Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, first Earl of, A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun., and W. Davies, 1796.