Biography & Autobiography
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George Eliot a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and PhilosophyGeorge Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and PhilosophyThe publication of a new edition of this work permits me to say that the essay on "The Lady Novelists," quoted in the seventh chapter, was written by George Henry Lewes. Its opinions, however,...
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The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume IIThe Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume IICholera was raging all over the Levant, and there was no direct communication with any Turkish port without passing through quarantine. In the uncertainty as to getting to my new post by any route, I decided to leave...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland NarrativesSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives[TR: Interviews were stamped at left side with state name, date, and interviewer's name. These stamps were often partially cut off. Where month could not...
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The Life and Letters of Elizabeth PrentissThe Life and Letters of Elizabeth PrentissThis memoir was undertaken at the request of many of Mrs. Prentiss' old and most trusted friends, who felt that the story of her life should be given to the public. Much of it is in the nature...
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The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume IThe Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume IThat a man should assume that his life is worth the venture of a record in the form of an autobiography suggests a degree of self-conceit of which I am not guilty. From my own initiative this would...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 5Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 5"I don't know exactly how old I am. I was six or seven when the war ended. I member dismy mother said I...
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The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3As soon as he returned victorious from the temptation in the wilderness, Jesus entered on the work of his public ministry. We find him, at once, preaching to the people, healing the sick, and doing...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas NarrativesSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives"My name is Clayton Holbert, and I am an ex slave. I am eighty-six years old. I was born and raised in Linn County, Tennessee....
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The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) It is with no undue confidence that I have accepted the invitation of the brothers and sisters of Lewis Carroll to write this Memoir. I am well aware that the path of the...
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A Grandmother's RecollectionsA Grandmother's RecollectionsThe best bed-chamber, with its hangings of crimson moreen, was opened and aireda performance which always caused my eight little brothers and sisters to place themselves in convenient positions for being stumbled over, to the great annoyance of industrious damsels, who, armed...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 7Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Charlie Vaden's father ran away and went to the war to fight. He was a slave and left his owner. His mother...
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Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in AmericaRussell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America - The Work and the ManThe measure of greatness is helpfulness. We have gone back to the method of the Master and learned to test men not by wealth, nor by birth, nor by...
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The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2Liszt's life was so lengthy and so industriously amorous, that it is possible only to float along over the peaks, to touch only the high points. Why, his letters to the last of his loves alone make...
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Autobiographical SketchesAutobiographical Sketches 1885. I am so often asked for references to some pamphlet or journal in which may be found some outline of my life, and the enquiries are so often couched in terms of such real kindness, that I have resolved to pen...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1"I was born in Chickashaw County, Mississippi. Ely Abbott and Maggie Abbott was our owners. They had three girls and two boysEddie and...
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Mémoires du sergent BourgogneMémoires du sergent BourgogneFils d'un marchand de toile de Cond-sur-Escaut (Nord), Adrien-Jean-Baptiste-Franois Bourgogne entrait dans sa vingtime anne le 12 novembre 1805, une poque o le rve unique de la jeunesse tait la gloire militaire. Pour le raliser, son pre lui facilita son entre...
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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a FreemanTwenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman - Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West The author does not think that any apology is necessary for this issue of his Life and History. He believes...
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Principal CairnsPrincipal Cairns In preparing the following pages I have been chiefly indebted for the materials of the earlier chapters to some MS. notes by my late uncle, Mr. William Cairns. These were originally written for Professor MacEwen when he was preparing his admirable Life...
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English Men of Letters: CrabbeEnglish Men of Letters: CrabbeThe chief, and almost sole, source of information concerning Crabbe is the Memoir by his son prefixed to the collected edition of his poems in 1834. Comparatively few letters of Crabbe's have been preserved, but a small and interesting series...
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Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VacaNaufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca[Nota del Transcriptor: Este archivo incluye el texto completo del libro con los errores e irregularidades en puntuacin, acentuacin y ortografa como aparecen en el original, seguido por el texto completo con las efes apropiadas cambiadas a eses...
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