Edward Gibbon

Contemporaries in the library

• Jane Austen · Pride and Prejudice
• Edmund Burke · Speech on Conciliation with America
• Samuel Richardson · Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
• William Blake · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• Thomas Paine · Rights of Man
• Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Henry Fielding · The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Laurence Sterne · The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman