Biographies

Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812

George Smith

George Smith’s work is a scholarly biography that traces the life of Henry Martyn, the first modern Anglican…

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Maisie Ward

The work is a biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton compiled by Maisie Ward, who spent six years gathering…

The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career

Vespucci, Amerigo; Casas, Bartolomé de las; Columbus, Christopher

The volume is a scholarly collection that brings together the surviving letters of Amerigo Vespucci, the…

Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work is a collection of seven lectures in which Emerson sets out to examine the idea that history and…

Brief Lives, Vol. 2

John Aubrey

Brief Lives, Vol. 2 is a collection of biographical sketches assembled by the 17th‑century antiquary John…

George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings

René Doumic

René Doumic’s work is a biographical essay rather than a scholarly monograph, presenting a series of themed…

A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 3 (of 3)

Sir Henry Keppel

Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams

Adams, John; Adams, Abigail

This volume assembles the surviving correspondence between John Adams and his wife Abigail during the…

Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South Africa

J. W. Matthews

Incwadi Yami is a first‑person memoir that chronicles Dr J. W.

Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia

William Fiddian Reddaway

The work is a scholarly history that seeks to trace Frederick the Great’s career and its impact on the…

Luther, vol. 5 of 6

Hartmann Grisar

Hartmann Grisar’s fifth volume in his six‑part “Life of Luther” is a scholarly biography that concentrates on…

Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American Philosophical Society, &c.: Interspersed with Various Notices of Many Distinguished Men : With an Appendix, Containing Sundry Philosophical and Other Papers, Most of Which Have Not Hitherto Been Published

William Barton

The work is a biographical memoir of David Rittenhouse, the distinguished astronomer, mathematician and…

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863

Abraham Lincoln

This volume is a primary‑source collection of Abraham Lincoln’s official papers and writings from 1862‑1863,…

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

Samuel Murray Hussey

The work is a memoir by Samuel Murray Hussey, an Irish land agent who lived to eighty, offering a…

Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2

John James Audubon

The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President

Ward Hill Lamon

Ward Hill Lamon’s work is a self‑conscious attempt to produce the most authentic biography of Abraham Lincoln…

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4)

William Milligan Sloane

The work is a scholarly biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, originally serialized in the Century Magazine in…

The Women Who Make Our Novels

Grant M. Overton

The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1

Elizabeth Bisland

The work is a two‑volume biography of Lafcadio Hearn compiled by Elizabeth Bisland and published in 1906.

The Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family

William Garden Blaikie

This volume, compiled by William Garden Blaikie in 1880, is a biographical study that seeks to fill the gaps…

Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery

George Iles

Inventors at Work is a sweeping survey of technological progress, organized as a series of concise chapters…

Life of Charles Dickens

Sir Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials

The work is a scholarly biography of Charles Dickens written by Frank T.

Fray Luis de León: A Biographical Fragment

James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

The work is a scholarly fragment by James Fitzmaurice‑Kelly that attempts to rescue a lost biography of Fray…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings

Giorgio Vasari