Biographies

Music and Some Highly Musical People

James M. Trotter

James M. Trotter’s Music and Some Highly Musical People is a nineteenth‑century survey that blends a modest…

A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study

William Tuckwell

The work is a scholarly biography of Alexander William Kinglake, the nineteenth‑century author of “Eothen”…

The life of Poggio Bracciolini

William Shepherd

The work is a scholarly biography of Poggio Bracciolini, the fifteenth‑century Italian humanist whose efforts…

A voyage to the South Sea: Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies

William Bligh

The work is a first‑person account of a Royal Navy expedition commissioned by King George III to transport…

The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2)

Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

The Tuzuk‑i‑Jahangiri, or Memoirs of Jahangir, is a royal autobiography of the Mughal emperor who ruled India…

Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers

W. E. Winks

The work is a biographical collection that gathers the lives of men who began as cobblers and rose to…

The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians

Harriette Brower

The work is a biographical compendium that presents the lives of the most celebrated composers in a series of…

Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900

Mary King Waddington

The book is a collection of personal letters written by Mary King Waddington, wife of the French…

Robert Browning

C. H. Herford

The work is a scholarly biography of Robert Browning written by C. H.

Gallipoli Diary

John Graham Gillam

John Graham Gillam’s Gallipoli Diary is a first‑person account of a supply officer attached to the 29th…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume presents a selection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s correspondence from his first year at Vailima,…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the third part of the Texas section of the United States Work Projects Administration’s “Slave…

The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 2 of 2)

John Evelyn

The second volume of John Evelyn’s diary continues the meticulous chronicle of his public duties and courtly…

Women in the Life of Balzac

Juanita Helm Floyd

Juanita Helm Floyd’s work is a scholarly biography that concentrates on the women who shaped Honoré de…

Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2)

Walter H. Tregellas

Walter H. Tregellas’s Cornish Worthies is a biographical compendium that gathers sketches of notable men and…

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The work is a biographical memoir of Charlotte Brontë written by Elizabeth Gaskell, whose subject headings…

Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales; and of His Early Connexion with the Missions to New Zealand and Tahiti

Samuel Marsden

This work is a biographical memoir of the Reverend Samuel Marsden, senior chaplain of New South Wales,…

Lord Randolph Churchill

Winston Churchill

The work is a meticulously documented political biography of Lord Randolph Churchill, the flamboyant…

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons

Lawrence Beesley

Lawrence Beesley’s work is a first‑hand historical account of the RMS Titanic disaster, written by a survivor…

An Artilleryman's Diary

Jenkins Lloyd Jones

An artilleryman’s diary, written by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, offers a first‑person account that blends personal…

The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 1 of 2)

William E. Barton

The work is a two‑volume biography of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, compiled by a close…

James Russell Lowell, A Biography; Vol 2/2

Horace Elisha Scudder

Horace Elisha Scudder’s second volume of James Russell Lowell, A Biography is a scholarly study that situates…

The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

The work is a personal memoir of Alexis de Tocqueville, written in the years following the February…

The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a first‑volume account of a mid‑nineteenth‑century expedition into the interior of Central…