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Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796) is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years. Lord Sheffield's editing has been praised for its ingenuity and taste, but blamed for its unscholarly aggressiveness.
Edward Gibbon FRS (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ b ən /; 8 May 1737 [1] – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion.
The John Gibbon papers, including correspondence, memoirs, and commentary on many aspects of his life and the military, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Photograph of Gibbon in 1889 with Chief Joseph .
Shortly following Gibbon's death, his good friend and literary executor, John Lord Sheffield undertook to edit and in 1796 published the first (of three) edition(s) of the Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (MW) [1] in order that the reading public have an opportunity to gain a broader insight into the historian and his overall body of work.
A one-volume edition with an "introductory memoir of the author" by William Youngman was published by J.O. Robinson (London, 1830). The 1838–1839 Rev. H.H. (Dean) Milman edition, the first English critical edition, was published in 12 volumes.
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Edward Gibbon – Memoirs of My Life and Writings; Deen Mahomed – The Travels of Dean Mahomet (first book published in English by an Indian) [6] Thomas James Mathias – The Pursuits of Literature; Thomas Paine – The Age of Reason; William Paley – View of the Evidences of Christianity
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