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Excerpt from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon: 1753 1794 Judith Porten, the mother of Edward Gibbon, was the third and young est daughter of Mr. James Porten, a merchant of London. She died in December, 1747, leaving the maternal care of her son to her sister, Miss Catherine Porten, the Aunt Kitty of the later correspondence, to whom this letter is addressed. After her father's commercial ruin, Miss Catherine Porten opened a boarding-house for Westminster School, in College Street. Under her care Gibbon spent the two years which he passed at Westminster. He entered the school in January, r748, and was placed in the second form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Biography & True Stories Diaries, letters & journals

• Pełny tytuł: Private Letters of Edward Gibbon
• Podtytuł: 1753 1794 (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Edward Gibbon
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 518
• EAN: 9781333435745
• ISBN: 1333435746
• ID: 14199134
• Wydawca: Forgotten Books
• Waga: 687 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 27 mm
• Data wydania: 02. September 2016

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