Biographies

The Life of George Borrow

Herbert George Jenkins

Herbert George Jenkins’s biography of George Borrow is a scholarly reconstruction of a 19th‑century English…

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 2: Politician, diplomatist, statesman, 1789-1801

Albert J. Beveridge

The volume is a scholarly biography of John Marshall, the future Chief Justice, covering the turbulent years…

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)

Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

The work is a biographical memoir of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, compiled by his…

The life of Henry Labouchere

Algar Thorold

The work is a biographical memoir of Henry Labouchere, a French‑born politician who lived from the reign of…

Wagner as Man & Artist

Ernest Newman

Ernest Newman’s work is a scholarly study that treats Richard Wagner as both a private individual and a…

Life of John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-Fame

Sidney Colvin

Sidney Colvin’s work is a scholarly biography that seeks to unite the fragmented studies of John Keats into a…

Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Otto Jahn

The third volume of Otto Jahn’s three‑part biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a scholarly study of the…

The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont: Minister plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763

J. Buchan Telfer

The work is a scholarly biography of Charles‑Geneviève‑Louis‑André Timothée d’Eon de Beaumont, the enigmatic…

Travels in Nubia

John Lewis; Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa Burckhardt

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel memoir that records the life and explorations of John Lewis…

The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3

Augustus J. C. Hare

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Augustus J. C. Hare, a Victorian‑era Englishman whose life spanned…

Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals

Louisa May Alcott

The work is a biographical study of Louisa May Alcott that combines narrative history with selections from…

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This volume is a biographical sketch of France’s most celebrated literary and scientific figures, and it…

The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 2

Winter, William; Winter, William Jefferson

Biographies of distinguished scientific men. First series

F. Arago

This volume is a collection of biographical sketches of eminent scientists, assembled by François Arago, a…

Franz Liszt

James Huneker

The work is a sweeping biographical essay by James Huneker that opens with a vivid anecdote: in 1874 Liszt,…

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This volume presents a carefully selected portion of the surviving correspondence of Elizabeth Barrett…

唐才子傳

Xin, Wenfang, active 13th century-14th century

The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions

Thomas Jefferson

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

Clement King Shorter

Clement King Shorter’s work is a scholarly biography that seeks to expand the familiar story of the Brontë…

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

The work is a first‑person memoir of Richard Henry Dana Jr., a Harvard‑educated lawyer who, after a bout of…

The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune

Francis St. Clair

The work is a historical study that concentrates on the secret societies behind the Philippine Revolution of…

Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold

Archibald Murray Howe

This work is a nineteenth‑century biography of Colonel John Brown, a Massachusetts farmer‑lawyer‑soldier who…

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1

Fanny Burney

The work is a curated selection of the diary and correspondence of Frances Burney, known as Madame D’Arblay,…

A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations

J. M. Wheeler

The work is a scholarly reference that assembles brief biographical sketches of individuals who have, in one…