Author

Edward Gibbon(1737–1794)

Edward Gibbon is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1836). One work is named, all in Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Harvard College Library loan

  • 1844 Mar 8·Gibbon's Roman Empire.shelf 2810

Charged out of Gore Hall on the card of Richard Frederick Fuller, Margaret's brother and then a Harvard senior; women could not borrow in their own name. Household access, not proof of her reading — not counted toward engagements. The full ledger →

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1836
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with Edward Gibbon

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Gibbon in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p61
“Gibbon's Miscellanies and autobiography,”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).