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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849 1850-1899	Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Edward Gibbon	Vindication	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca...	Catherine McMullen	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe...	Jack Lawson	Edward Gibbon	[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de...	Kathleen Woodward	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 Jan...	Anne Lister	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gend...	Anne Lister	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...	Wil John Edwards	Edward Gibbon	presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont...	Thomas Carlyle	Edward Gibbon	Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Edward Gibbon		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own char...	Benjamin Newton	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by hims...	Benjamin Newton	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from...	Benjamin Newton	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world comb...	Edward Davy Harrop	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roma...	James Watson	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own ...	William Upcott	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda....	William Upcott	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 ...	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Edward Gibbon	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read lovely book: "Cold Comfort Farm"'.	Hilary Spalding	Stella Gibbons	Cold Comfort Farm	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T...	Hilary Spalding	Stella Gibbons	Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition i...	Thomas Burt	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'The Dundee Factory Boy claimed that while an apprentice shoemaker, he read, "books on nearly all the disputed questio...		Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'	George Eliot [pseud]	Edward Gibbon	[on revival of Greek learning]	Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl...	George Eliot [pseud]	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon. It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, s...	Harriet Martineau	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence. Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost...	Harriet Martineau	Edward Gibbon	correspondence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]'	Harriet Martineau	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Fitzgibbon	The speech of the Right Honourable John Lord Baron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was ...	Joseph Hunter	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was ...	Joseph Evans	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Gibbon to the library. I have not had time to read more than one chapter being engaged with Bowyers. I can procu...	Joseph Hunter	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sunday 28th November ?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).'	Gerald Moore	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Tuesday 7th December. "Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'.	Gerald Moore	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Winchester I was able to get the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall", but had no time to finish it. On ano...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e...	Thomas Carlyle	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ...	Thomas Carlyle	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked into Gibbon's "Miscellaneous Works"...'	Thomas Green	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Gibbon's "Memoirs of himself"--an exquisite morceau of literature...'	Thomas Green	Edward Gibbon	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Gibbon's "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature": an ostentatious performance...'	Thomas Green	Edward Gibbon	Essai sur l??tude de la litt?rature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening S[helley] C[lary] and H[ogg] sleep - read Gibbon'	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Gibbon alloud to me'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb...	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis...	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'.	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish...	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.	Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - ...	Mary Godwin	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de...	Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay...	Claire Clairmont	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and Hume. S reads Gibbon - read G[e]orgics - 194'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Gibbon'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'	Mary Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I ...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int...	Jane Baillie Welsh	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...	Virginia Stephen	Edward Gibbon	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910: 'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are pas...	Edward Morgan Forster	Edward Gibbon	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917: 'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its...	Edward Morgan Forster	Edward Gibbon		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I told him, that I had been present the day before when Mrs. Montagu, the literary lady, sat to Miss Reynolds for her...	Elizabeth Montagu	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the follow...	Alfred Tennyson	Gibbon	History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'I do not know in the annals of history & barbarity a...	Robert Southey	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his Afrikander memories. I didn't quite tell him how good they are for...	Joseph Conrad	Reginald Perceval Gibbon	Afrikander Memories	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessaril...	William Soutar	Lewis Grassic Gibbon	Sunset Song	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. On...	William Soutar	Lewis Grassic Gibbon	Grey Granite	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do...	George Grote	Edward Gibbon		Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do...	William Harris	Edward Gibbon		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's corespondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]...	Joseph Conrad	Reginald Perceval Gibbon	article published in "Daily Chronicle"	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Dec...	Martin Wentworth Littlewood	Edward Gibbon	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book

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