Ciufi Galeazzi
A Daughter of the Seine
This biography of Madame Roland was written for young adults but can be equally enjoyed by adult readers. Madame Roland was a key figure in …
Pierre Curie
This biography of the noted French physicist Pierre Curie was written by his wife, the renowned physicist Marie Curie. In it, she not only c…
Essays in Idleness
Agnes Repplier was a popular and highly regarded essayist of the late 19th and early 20th century, who was also well known on the lecture ci…
Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Re…
A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen
This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …
Giacomo Puccini
This biography of Puccini was written while the composer was at the height of his career. Besides the usual biographical information, the au…
An Old Master and Other Political Essays
This is a collection of five essays published by Woodrow Wilson in 1893, while he was Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University (s…
Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself
Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher, and reformer of the mid to late 1800s…
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…
A Political Pilgrim in Europe
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…
A Life of Napoleon
Ida Tarbell is best known today as the investigative journalist whose pieces on workings of the Standard Oil Company led to the creation of …