Biography & Autobiography
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (Version 2)
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Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The first scholarly biography on the life of Ludwig Von Beethoven. Volume 1 - Summary by Realisticspeakers
Mark Twain and the Happy Island
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Elizabeth Wallace
This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace an…
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897)
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Oscar Wilde
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to t…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)
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James Boswell
This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been a…
Hypatia
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John Toland
Hypatia is John Toland's biography of the one he calls "a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplish’d lady,…
Ponnamal, Her Story
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…
Raleigh
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Edmund Gosse
Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the "Colony and Dominion of Virginia" (which included the present-day states…
Heroines of Service
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Mary Rosetta Parkman
From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…
Elsie Inglis - The Woman With the Torch
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Eva Shaw McLaren and Eva Shaw Mclaren
This is a brief biography of the Scottish physician and suffragist Dr. Elsie Inglis. Dr. Inglis founded a maternity hospital for the poor…
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 11
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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…
Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study
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Hamilton Fyfe
A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here …
Sir Robert Hart: The Romance of a Great Career
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Juliet Bredon
"Sir Robert Hart: The Romance of a Great Career" by Juliet Bredon is a biographical work that explores the remarkable life of Sir …
Converts from Infidelity, Volume 1
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Andrew Crichton
Converts from infidelity; or, Lives of eminent individuals who have renounced libertine principles and sceptical opinions, and embraced Chri…
Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms
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George Henschel
George Henschel, a well-known pianist, singer, composer, and conductor was close friends with Johannes Brahms from 1874 to 1897 and he provi…
Caroline the Illustrious, Vol. 2
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William Henry Wilkins
The second volume in the biography of Queen Caroline, Queen Consort and sometime Queen Regent of George II. Her relationships with the Churc…
Orion Clemens
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Fred W. Lorch
Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825 – December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langh…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
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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…
Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Volume 1
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Dr. John Doran and John Doran
The first of a two volume work looking at the lives of English queens in the Hanoverian period (1714-1901). This volume includes Sophia Doro…
The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas
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Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas wrote his autobiography in his late fifties, some 29 years after the death of Oscar Wilde. Since the publication…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
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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…