Biography & Autobiography
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…
Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy
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E. Luscomb Haskell
"The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law" by E. Luscomb Haskell was pu…
Hereditary Genius
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Sir Francis Galton
A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including colleg…
The Escape of a Princess Pat
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George Pearson
Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia'sCanadian Light Infantr…
Half a Century
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Jane Grey Swisshelm
In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery
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Charles Raymond Beazley
Prince Henry was a significant explorer and adventurer in a period of enlightenment and expansion of European trade and knowledge of the wor…
The Autobiography of a "Newspaper Girl"
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Elizabeth L. Banks
Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She…
Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne was a contemporary of Shakespeare who, after having played his part in France's terrible wars of religion, retired to hi…
Lucretia Borgia
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Ferdinand Gregorovius
According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this beca…
Clara A. Swain, M.D.
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Mrs. Robert Hoskins
This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." S…
When They Were Girls
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Rebecca Deming Moore
Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Frances Burnett, Julia Howe, Hellen Keller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe are some of the influenc…
Henry II
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Louis Francis Salzman
Born in 1133, King Henry II of England reigned from 1154 until his death in 1189. Before he was forty, he controlled England, large parts of…
Dr. John Dee: Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer
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G. M. Hort
A short biographical sketch of Dr. John Dee (born 1527), the English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. “In an…
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1
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Henry Richard Fox Bourne, Thomas Barnes Cochrane and Henry Fox Bourne
Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He start…
The Confession of a Child of the Century
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Alfred De Musset
In this autobiographic novel, an aging man reflects on his past. We are witness to the relationships he has along the way, his mistakes, and…
Life of Viscount Palmerston
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Lloyd Charles Sanders
This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreig…
The Loves of Great Composers
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Gustav Kobbé
Gustav Kobbe was a German/US music critic who worked at the time of Liszt and Wagner in particular, and was clearly in the Wagnerian rather …
The Home Life of Poe
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Susan Archer Weiss
The author of this biography of Poe, Susan Weiss, describes her work as follows: "I have not treated Poe in his character of poet or a…
The Making of an American
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Jacob A. Riis
Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life …
Ingersoll on THE GREAT INFIDELS, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume …
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…