Biography & Autobiography
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Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a PhilosopherConsolations in Travel; or, the Last Days of a PhilosopherSalmonia was written during the time of a partial recovery from a long and dangerous illness. The present work was composed immediately after, under the same unfavourable and painful circumstances, and at a period when...
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A Slave Girl's StoryA Slave Girl's Story - Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.This sketch is written for the good of those that have written and prayed that the slaves might be a freed people, and have schools and books and learn to read and write for...
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Memories of Childhood's Slavery DaysMemories of Childhood's Slavery DaysThe memory of my happy, care-free childhood days on the plantation, with my little white and black companions, is often with me. Neither master nor mistress nor neighbors had time to bestow a thought upon us, for the great Civil...
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian SlaveThe History of Mary Prince, a West Indian SlaveThe idea of writing Mary Prince's history was first suggested by herself. She wished it to be done, she said, that good people in England might hear from a slave what a slave had felt and...
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The Story of Mattie J. JacksonThe Story of Mattie J. Jackson - Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from SlaveryThe object in publishing this book is to gain sympathy from the earnest friends of those who have been bound down by a dominant race...
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Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured WomanMemoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured WomanIn the following Narrative of "Old Elizabeth," which was taken mainly from her own lips in her 97th year, her simple language has been adhered to as strictly as was consistent with perspicuity and propriety. I was born...
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From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for FreedomFrom the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for FreedomSo many of my friends have urged me to give a short sketch of my varied life that I have consented, and herewith present it for the consideration of my readers. Those who were with...
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Vie de FranklinVie de Franklin 1870 J'ai surtout fait usage, pour composer cette Vie de Franklin, de ses crits, de ses Mmoires, de ses Lettres, publis, en six volumes in-8, par son petit-fils William Temple Franklin. Voici le titre de cette prcieuse collection des oeuvres de...
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Memoir of Jane AustenMemoir of Jane AustenThe Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am...
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Mga Dakilang Pilipino o ang kaibigan ng mga nagaaralMga Dakilang Pilipino; o ang kaibigan ng mga nagaaralPaalala ng Nagsalin: Sa orihinal na pagkalimbag, tinangal ng maykatha ang lahat ng "n" at ginamit lamang ang g. Dahil ninais ng maykatha na gamiting ang libro ng mga estudyante para sa kanilang pagaaral ay binalik...
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Sir John French: An Authentic BiographySir John French: An Authentic BiographyI regard John Denton French as the man who for the last twelve years has been the driving force of tactical instruction in the British Army. He made use of all the best ideas of the Generals who preceded...
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Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 - With His Letters and JournalsThe favourable reception which I ventured to anticipate for the First Volume of this work has been, to the full extent of my expectations, realised; and I may without scruple thus advert to...
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Kampagne in FrankreichKampagne in FrankreichGleich nach meiner Ankunft in Mainz besuchte ich Herrn von Stein den lteren, kniglich preuischen Kammerherrn und Oberforstmeister, der eine Art Residentenstelle daselbst versah und sich im Hass gegen alles Revolutionre gewaltsam auszeichnete. Er schilderte mir mit flchtigen Zgen die bisherigen Fortschritte...
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The History of Napoleon BuonaparteThe History of Napoleon Buonaparte"Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance. The fiery energy of his youthful career, and the magnificent progress of his irresistible ambition, have invested his character with the mysterious grandeur...
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My Life as an AuthorMy Life as an AuthorI have often been asked to prepare an autobiography, but my objections to the task have ever been many and various. To one urgent appeal I sent this sonnet of refusal, which explains itself: In fact I always rejected the...
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Great Singers, Second SeriesGreat Singers, Second Series - Malibran To Titiens In the preparation of this companion volume of "Great Singers," the same limitations of purpose have guided the author as in the case of the earlier book, which sketched the lives of the greatest lyric artists...
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Great Singers, First SeriesGreat Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag In compiling and arranging the material which enters into the following sketches of distinguished singers, it is only honest to disclaim any originality except such as may be involved in a picturesque presentation of...
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Great Violinists and PianistsGreat Violinists and Pianists The title of this little book may be misleading to some of its readers, in its failure to include sketches of many eminent artists well worthy to be classed under such a head. There has been no attempt to cover...
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Chr. M. Wieland's BiographieChr. M. Wieland's BiographieChristoph Martin Wieland erblickte in dem unfern der ehemaligen freien Reichsstadt Biberach gelegenen Dorfe Ober-Holzheim am 5. September 1733 das Licht der Welt. Sein Vater, Matthias, der dort eine Pfarrstelle bekleidete, doch bald nachher Prediger an der Marien-Magdalenenkirche zu Biberach ward,...
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Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the ThirdHistoric Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the ThirdL'histoire n'est fondee que sur le tomoignage des Auteurs qui nous l'ont transmisse. Il importe donc extremement, pour la scavoir, de bien connoitre quels etoient ces Auteurs. Rien n'est a negliger en ce...
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