SOURCE: Pearson, John H. “Reading the Writing in the Drafts of Edward Gibbon's Memoirs.” Biography 14, no. 3 (summer 1991): 222-42.
In the following essay, Pearson describes the six attempts Gibbon made to write his autobiography, describing how in each draft the historian revised the image he presented of himself.
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