Biography & Autobiography
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Victoria C. Woodhull: A Biographical SketchVictoria C. Woodhull: A Biographical SketchI shall swiftly sketch the life of Victoria Claflin Woodhull; a young woman whose career has been as singular as any heroine's in a romance; whose ability is of a rare and whose character of the rarest type; whose...
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Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived InSamuel Pepys and the World He Lived In[v] PREFACE. This little book does not need any long Preface, as the title sufficiently explains the object aimed at. Although the various subjects referred to in the Diary are annotated in the different editions, there is...
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Life of David W. Patten, the First Apostolic MartyrLife of David W. Patten, the First Apostolic MartyrThe writing of this little volume has been a pleasant task. And just as we find mingled with our regret at parting with a friend, a joy in the assurance that to whomsoever he comes he...
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From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen SylvaFrom Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen SylvaIt has been said by a well-known German novelist of our day in one of his most recent works that as we approach our fiftieth year our hearts nearly always resemble a grave-yard, thronged with memories, a...
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The Girls' Book of Famous QueensThe Girls' Book of Famous QueensIN the annals of history, women have played an important part; and among the famous sovereigns of the world, queens, as well as kings, have made their names illustrious by heroic deeds and great enterprises. The names which we...
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50 Years in the Church of RomeFifty Years in the Church of RomeErrors, when reasonably attributable to the printer, have been corrected. The corrections appear as words underlined with a light gray. The original text will be shown when the mouse is over the word. Please see the transcribers note...
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A Schoolmaster's DiaryA Schoolmaster's Diary - Being Extracts from the Journal of Patrick Traherne, M.A., Sometime Assistant Master at Radchester and Marlton."The man who looks at this view, for the first time, with the naked eye, sees far more of it than the man who looks...
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Bohemian Days in Fleet StreetBohemian Days in Fleet StreetBooks beget books, even when they are books of autobiography. Not that the writer of reminiscence will admit as much. He isif you believe himthe victim of an irrepressible impulse, or he has at length (usually at great length) yielded...
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In Good CompanyIn Good Company - Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen PhillipsIt is many years since we first met at the house of one whom we both loved, whose memory we both cherish. It was...
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L'Académie des sciences et les académiciens de 1666 à 1793L'Académie des sciences et les académiciens de 1666 à 1793Lhistoire complte de lAcadmie des sciences serait une uvre considrable. Faire connatre la marche de toutes les sciences depuis plus de deux sicles, dire le temps et loccasion de leurs progrs en France, assigner le...
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Henry D. ThoreauHenry D. ThoreauWhen, in 1879, I was asked by my friend Charles Dudley Warner to write the biography of Thoreau which follows, I was by no means unprepared. I had known this man of genius for the last seven years of his too short...
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The Autobiography of a Super-TrampThe Autobiography of a Super-Tramp XXI The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp XXII 1 The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp I was born thirty-five years ago, in a public house called the Church House, in the town of N, in the county of M. It was...
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Dr. Elsie InglisDr. Elsie InglisThe story of Elsie Inglis needs little introduction. From first to last she was the woman nobly planned. She achieved what she did because she was ready when the opportunity came. Consistently she had lived her life, doing whatever her hand found...
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Famous ImpostorsFamous ImpostorsThe subject of imposture is always an interesting one, and impostors in one shape or another are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is, and society shows itself ready to be gulled. The histories of famous cases of...
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Elijah Kellogg, the Man and His WorkElijah Kellogg, the Man and His Work - Chapters from His Life and Selections from His WritingsThis book makes no pretence of expounding the doctrines of the theologian or analyzing the methods of the artist. It is simply a remembrancer of a quaint and...
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The life of Midhat Pasha a record of his services, political reforms, banishment, and judicial murderThe life of Midhat Pasha; a record of his services, political reforms, banishment, and judicial murderAs the Son of Midhat Pasha I was for fifteen years compelled to reside as an exile in Smyrna, but finding the physical and moral sufferings to which I...
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IntentionsIntentionsM. Charles Grolleau, auquel nous avons confi le soin d'crire l'tude que nous dsirions voir figurer en ce volume, a pieusement recueilli, parmi les notes que nous a laisses Rebell, plusieurs passages recopis par cet auteur qui les jugeait achevs. Je blme galement et...
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Fairlop and Its Founder or, Facts and Fun for the Forest FrolickersFairlop and Its Founder; or, Facts and Fun for the Forest Frolickers.THIS curious and interesting account, written by a gentleman of Essex, intimate with one of the descendants of Mr. Daniel Day, will afford us an instance of its being in the power of...
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Heroines of "Mormondom"Heroines of "Mormondom" - The Second Book of the Noble Women's Lives SeriesIT affords us much pleasure to be able to present a second book of the "NOBLE WOMEN'S LIVES SERIES" to the public. It will, we feel confident, prove no less interesting than...
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Lady Jane Grey and Her TimesLady Jane Grey and Her TimesIn 1546 it must have been evident to most observers that the life of the man who had for thirty-five years been Englands ruler and tyrantof whom Raleigh affirmed that if all the patterns of a merciless Prince had...
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