The reflective autobiography of the great historian of Rome, recounting his education and the making of his masterwork. It is admired for its wit and self-awareness.
Sources for Edward Gibbon — Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Edward Gibbon — Memoirs of My Life and Writings in Autobiography & Confession
Held in the Autobiography & Confession chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Flavius Josephus — The Life of Flavius Josephus (94)
- Augustine — Confessions (397)
- Peter Abelard — Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes) (1132)
- Benvenuto Cellini — The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself (1563)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau — The Confessions (1782)
- Benjamin Franklin — The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)
- Frederick Douglass — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
- Henry David Thoreau — Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)
- Harriet Jacobs — Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
- Booker T. Washington — Up from Slavery (1901)
- Helen Keller — The Story of My Life (1903)
- Richard Wagner — My Life (Mein Leben) (1880)