Biographies

Seven and nine years among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

Edwin Eastman

This work presents itself as an autobiographical sketch by Edwin Eastman, a self‑described “tyro” author,…

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga’s Erasmus and the Age of Reformation is a scholarly biography that situates the Dutch humanist…

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

Dame Shirley

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851‑52 present a series of twenty‑three epistolary fragments…

Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1

Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme

This volume presents Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé de Brantôme’s Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, rendered into…

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

George Alfred Townsend

George Alfred Townsend’s work is a hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and war reportage, assembled from…

A Sailor of King George

Hoffman, Frederick, Captain

The work is a first‑person naval memoir by Captain Frederick Hoffman, compiled from his own journals and…

A Small Boy and Others

Henry James

The work is a memoir‑like recollection by Henry James that seeks to sketch the early life of his brother…

Seen and Unseen

E. Katherine Bates

The work is a memoir that blends personal anecdote with a systematic discussion of psychic phenomena, written…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the fourth installment of the Arkansas section of the United States Work Projects…

The Life of Sir Richard Burton

Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright’s work is a corrective biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the Victorian explorer,…

Stories of Authors, British and American

Edwin Watts Chubb

This volume is a biographical anthology that brings together sketches of notable British and American…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2, is a…

The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon

J. M. Gordon

The work is a sprawling family memoir that treats the Gordons as a case study in the restless spirit of…

Louis XIV. Makers of History Series

John S. C. Abbott

John S. C. Abbott’s “Louis XIV” is a nineteenth‑century scholarly biography that treats the Sun King as the…

My Reminiscences

Rabindranath Tagore

My Reminiscences is a reflective memoir by Rabindranath Tagore, the celebrated Bengali poet and thinker of…

Fifty years in Wall Street

Henry Clews

Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit.

Iwan Bloch

Der vorliegende Band ist eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Monographie über den Marquis de Sade und das 18.

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions

Samuel Felton

Samuel Felton’s work is a scholarly catalogue that gathers engraved likenesses of English writers who have…

Wilmot and Tilley

James Hannay

The work is a biographical study of two pivotal New Brunswick politicians, Lemuel Allan Wilmot and Sir Samuel…

William the Conqueror Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a scholarly biography that treats William the Conqueror as one of the “great personages” whose…

Milton

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

Walter Alexander Raleigh’s work is a scholarly meditation on the life and criticism of John Milton, framed as…

The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley Rector of Epworth and father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodists

L. Tyerman

Luke Tyerman’s work is a scholarly biography of Samuel Wesley, the 17th‑century rector of Epworth and father…

Some Reminiscences of old Victoria

Edgar Fawcett

Edgar Fawcett’s Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria is a personal memoir that blends family history with a…

The Promised Land

Mary Antin

The Promised Land is a memoir by Mary Antin, a Jewish immigrant born in Polotzk (now Polatsk, Belarus) in the…