Biographies

Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience

Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont); Vaughan, Mary C.

The work is a meticulously compiled record of women’s contributions to the Union cause during the American…

John Knox and the Reformation

Andrew Lang

This work is a scholarly biography that sets out to reassess John Knox by challenging the traditional view…

Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements

Thomas E. Watson

Thomas E. Watson’s “Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements” is a concise,…

Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression

John Campbell

Atrocious Judges is a sweeping historical study that catalogues the lives and careers of England’s most…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the second part of the United States Work Projects Administration’s extensive oral‑history…

Bismarck: some secret pages of his history (Vol. 1 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor

Moritz Busch

This volume is the first of a three‑part diary kept by Dr Moritz Busch, who spent twenty‑five years in close…

Andreas Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy

James Moores Ball

The work is a scholarly biography of Andreas Vesalius, the sixteenth‑century anatomist hailed as “the Luther…

Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.

Philip Vickers Fithian

The work is a combined journal and correspondence by Philip Vickers Fithian, a New Jersey‑born scholar who,…

Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Abraham Lincoln

This volume gathers the public speeches and private correspondence of Abraham Lincoln from the early days of…

T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him

Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt); Talmage, Eleanor McCutcheon Collier

The work is an autobiographical memoir written by the celebrated preacher Thomas De Witt Talmage, presented…

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814)

James Anthony Gardner

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814) is a personal memoir rather than a…

Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum

Struggles and Triumphs is the expansive autobiography of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the man who built the…

The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition

Charles Turley

The work is a biographical narrative that traces the life of Robert Falcon Scott from his childhood in Devon…

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë is a nineteenth‑century biography that opens with a detailed…

How I found Livingstone: Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone

Henry M. Stanley

The work is a first‑person travel narrative by Henry M. Stanley, written after his 1869 encounter with James…

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley: To the year 1795, written by himself: with a continuation, to the time of his decease, by his son, Joseph Priestley: and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper, President Judge of the 4th. district of Pennsylvania: and the Rev. William Christie.

Joseph Priestley

The work is a three‑part memoir that combines the autobiographical sketch of Joseph Priest Priestley himself,…

Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense. From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

This volume is a scholarly collection of Alexander von Humboldt’s private correspondence with his lifelong…

Goya, an account of his life and works

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a scholarly survey of the Spanish master Francisco Goya, presented as a…

Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535

Roger Bigelow Merriman

This volume is a scholarly attempt to portray Thomas Cromwell as a statesman whose actions were driven by…

The Great War As I Saw It

Frederick George Scott

The work is a first‑person memoir by Canon Frederick George Scott, senior chaplain of the First Canadian…

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys’s diary is a first‑person chronicle of a London civil servant’s daily life in the early…

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)

Mark Twain

This volume gathers a selection of Mark Twain’s private correspondence from the later years of his life,…

Dumas' Paris

M. F. Mansfield

The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)

Florence May

Florence May’s second volume on the life of Johannes Brahma ns is a scholarly biography that begins by…