Edward Gibbon

(1737-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 NRA: Gibbon Edward (1737-1794) Historian DNB: Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794), historian LBT ID: EdGibbo1794 VIAF ID: 24601933 LOC ID: n80005416	B/BAP: 1737-04-27 DIED: 1794-01-16
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Author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788).
REFERENCES TO Edward Gibbon: William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, 31 December 1799 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [1 March 1800] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Henry Herbert Southey, 25 August 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, [11 September 1800] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 21 February 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to R. C. Dallas, 21 January 1808 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 20 November 1808 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Roscoe to John Aikin, [1810] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 15 May 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 8 January 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 April 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 31 December 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Rogers to an unnamed young poet, [1815] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 3 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 9 February 1815 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 3 February 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Chauncey Hare Townshend, 5 June 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 22 July 1816 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two more Letters: being the fourth and last (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 6 Robert Southey to William Smith, M.P., 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 14 Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 23 August 1817 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 4 September 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 23 October 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to John May, 16 November 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Herman Merivale to John Herman Merivale, 7 May 1820 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Henry Drury to Francis Hodgson, 22 August 1820 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Sheppard, 8 December 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 6 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 “Lord Byron’s Cain” in The Examiner (10 March 1822) 152 Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 4 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) On religion and religious epics Found 1: ¶ 17 Byron's Cain Found 1: ¶ n2 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 4 October 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 “Southey and Byron” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 711-15 Found 1: ¶ 2 James Kennedy to John Cam Hobhouse, 11 November 1824 in Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 Robert Southey to Henry Taylor, 31 December 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Sydney Smith to Philip Howard, [17 November] 1827 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 41 Mr. Shelley. With a Criticism on his Genius. Found 2: ¶ 17 ¶ 1n William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. I. 1747-1752 Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. IV. 1765-1766 Found 3: ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ n4 Ch. VIII. 1771-1776 Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. X. 1779-1786 Found 1: ¶ 11 Ch. XIV. 1786-1789 Found 1: ¶ 9 Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 3: ¶ 8 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Ch. XXIII. 1794 Found 9: ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ n1 Ch. XXVI. 1800-1803 Found 1: ¶ 22 Ch. XXVIII. 1800-1807 Found 1: ¶ 25 Appendix Verse 2: p. 467b p. 467b “Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries” in New Monthly Magazine NS 22 (January 1828) 84-96 Found 1: ¶ 34 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 14 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Monthly Review S3 7 (March 1828) 300-12 Found 1: ¶ 22 Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Preface First Conversation Found 5: ¶ 3 ¶ 13 ¶ 23 ¶ 25 ¶ 33 Kennedy on Scripture Found 1: ¶ 4 Second Conversation Found 4: ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 Notes Found 1: ¶ 19 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ n1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 26 Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 10 Life of Byron: 1814 Life of Byron: 1816 (I) Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Life of Byron: 1817 Life of Byron: 1821 Life of Byron: 1822 “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 4 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 4: ¶ 66 ¶ 67 ¶ 68 ¶ 70 [William Bourne Oliver Peabody], “Moore’s Life of Byron” in North American Review 31 (July 1830) 167-99 Found 1: ¶ 11 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Dr. Kennedy and Lord Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (August 1830) 1-9 Found 1: ¶ 20 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (8 January 1831) 23-25 Found 1: ¶ 6 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 2: ¶ 28 ¶ 30 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. 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