Biography & Autobiography

Two Diaries From Middle St. John's

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Susan R. Jervey



Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlott…

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

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Elbert Hubbard



Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

The Lives of the Queens of England

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Agnes Strickland



The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

My Thirty Years In Baseball

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John McGraw and John Mcgraw



The autobiography of John Joseph McGraw, another one of the "greats" of baseball. McGraw, along with Casey Stengel, has managed t…

The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer



The first of three volumes of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. Covers the years 1770-1802. - Summary by Zain Solinski

Sailor Brothers

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Edith Hubback Brown



"Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers" by Edith & John Hubback is a biography that explores the lives of Jane Austen's two sailor bro…

Margaret Fuller

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Julia Ward Howe



A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…

Life of Henry David Thoreau

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Henry Salt



Henry David Thoreau was a fascinating man, contributing vast amounts of information on nature history, leading the way for environmentalism.…

The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey

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George Cavendish



Thomas Wolsey was an English statesman and Catholic bishop. His appointment as a cardinal by Pope Leo X in 1515 gave him precedence over all…

Legends of the Saints

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Mary Seymour



Delightful children's book composed of fifty-five short Catholic legends. Included are stories of St. Nicholas, St. Christopher, St. Francis…

The Story of Slavery

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Booker T. Washington



Booker T. Washington, the author of the following sketch of slavery in America, was himself born a slave, and the story of his life begins w…

Patience Worth

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Casper S. Yost



Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. …

The Story of My Life

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Helen Keller



Secondary Title - A supplementary Account of Helen Keller's Education, including passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne …

The Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Ida M. Tarbell



Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…

Shri Dnyaneshwar

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William James McGlothlin



An overview of the life of Shri Dnyaneshwar and his devoted family. Dnyaneshwar was a 13th-century Indian poet and yogin. He commentated the…

A Group of Famous Women

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Edith Horton



It is a remarkable fact that little attention, if any, has been given to the study of the careers of distinguished women, and the question h…

Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana

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Charles Hughes



"It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my kn…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

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Giorgio Vasari



The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket

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Richard Gorton Barlow



R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the b…

Catharine de Bora

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John G. Morris



"There are many interesting and characteristic incidents in the domestic life of Luther which are not found in biographies of the great…

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