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St. Rose of Lima: The Flower of the New World - Florence Mary Capes
St. Rose of Lima: The Flower of the New World - Florence Mary Capes
- Author: Florence Mary Capes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 β August 24, 1617), was a Spanish colonist in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the city through her own private efforts. A lay member of the...
An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant - Marcus Eli Ravage
An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant - Marcus Eli Ravage
- Author: Marcus Eli Ravage
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
βThe sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty. . . It was my first university.β Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by day sewing sleeves into shirts in a ghetto shop, Marcus Eli Ravage (1884-1965) began his transformation from...
The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1 - Edward Tyas COOK
The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1 - Edward Tyas COOK
- Author: Edward Tyas COOK
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of her notes, letters and writings, that goes way beyond the mere legend of "The Lady With The Lamp", and the...
The Red Battle Flyer - Manfred von Richthofen
The Red Battle Flyer - Manfred von Richthofen
- Author: Manfred von Richthofen
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 β 21 April 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (LuftstreitkrΓ€fte) during World War I. He is considered the top ace of...
Out of the Shadow - Rose Gollup Cohen
Out of the Shadow - Rose Gollup Cohen
- Author: Rose Gollup Cohen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
In this interesting autobiography we get a very candid look into the life of Rose Cohen, a Russian Jewish girl who immigrates from Russia to the Lower East Side of New York city with her family. From the deplorable conditions in the garment...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2) - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2) - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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 annotated by numerous editors . This edition with footnotes is by George Birbeck Hill. Boswell took many notes...
Alexander Hamilton - Charles A. Conant
Alexander Hamilton - Charles A. Conant
- Author: Charles A. Conant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American Revolutionary War and became an aide to General George Washington. He was one of the authors (along with John...
Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter - Elliott O'DONNELL
Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter - Elliott O'DONNELL
- Author: Elliott O'DONNELL
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
After having a difficult time establishing a career as a novelist, OβDonnell discovered to his happy surprise that the reading public was very interested in his hobby of chasing ghosts, which he called βSuperphysical Research.β After this, he made a...
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw - Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw - Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
- Author: Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, also known as James Albert, (born ca. 1705 - 1775) was a freed slave and autobiographer. His autobiography is considered the first published by an African in Britain. Gronniosaw's autobiography was produced in Kidderminster in...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 8 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 8 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de' piΓΉ eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri) is a collection of...
Cardinal Wolsey (Version 2) - Mandell Creighton
Cardinal Wolsey (Version 2) - Mandell Creighton
- Author: Mandell Creighton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
From the "Twelve English Statesmen," series of books. A brief history of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey who helped shape England's foreign policy through the early part of Henry VIII's reign, and beyond, along with his subsequent fall from grace when he...
Four Masters of Etching - Frederick Wedmore
Four Masters of Etching - Frederick Wedmore
- Author: Frederick Wedmore
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Frederick Wedmore presents short vignettes of influential artists of the 19th century who were noted for their mastery of etching: Seymour Haden, Jules Jacquemart, J. A. M. Whistler, and Alphonse Legros. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
A Japanese Boy - Shigemi Shiukichi
A Japanese Boy - Shigemi Shiukichi
- Author: Shigemi Shiukichi
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The life of a Japanese boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's, told simply and beautifully. This isn't about civilizations and governments, but about what it was like to be a child in a small seaport town called Imabari, which is situated on the...
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Life - Frank Thomas Bullen
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Life - Frank Thomas Bullen
- Author: Frank Thomas Bullen
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the continuous story of the actual experiences of his first four years at sea. In graphic and picturesque phrases he has sketched the...
Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light - Vera Charlesworth Barclay
Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light - Vera Charlesworth Barclay
- Author: Vera Charlesworth Barclay
- Genre: Religion / Biography & Autobiography
Once upon a time there were fifteen Cubs who spent nine wonderful days in camp. They were London Cubs, and the camp was on a beautiful little green island whose rocky shore ran down in green, tree-covered points into the bluest sea you ever saw....
Builders of United Italy - Rupert S. HOLLAND
Builders of United Italy - Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Author: Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of its most important figures: Alfieri, Manzoni, Gioberti, Manin, Mazzini, Cavour, Garibaldi, and Victor Emmanuel. - Summary...
Margaret Sanger; an autobiography - Margaret SANGER
Margaret Sanger; an autobiography - Margaret SANGER
- Author: Margaret SANGER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical / Modern (20th C)
Margaret Sanger, an advocate for birth control rights, chronicles the story of her struggles, including her times in jail and in exile, in order to legalize birth control options for women. She details the uphill battles of not only convincing...
George Washington - Ferdinand Schmidt
George Washington - Ferdinand Schmidt
- Author: Ferdinand Schmidt
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Among all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of Washington. The author has condensed his material, drawn from the most authoritative sources, in a masterly...
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
Volume 1 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln covers his life from his boyhood to his election to the presidency in 1860. Tarbell, in addition to her famous work in investigative journalism (in particular, her influential expose of The Standard Oil...
Mark Twain and the Happy Island - Elizabeth Wallace
Mark Twain and the Happy Island - Elizabeth Wallace
- Author: Elizabeth Wallace
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast friends, and shared time together on the island and regular...
The Life of Washington, Volume 2 - John James Marshall
The Life of Washington, Volume 2 - John James Marshall
- Author: John James Marshall
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / History
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against the French in Canada until the cessation of his tenure, after which he marries and appears to settle down....
Henry II - Louis Francis Salzman
Henry II - Louis Francis Salzman
- Author: Louis Francis Salzman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
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 Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and, thanks to his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, the western half...
Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Col. Ingersoll begins his famous lecture on SHAKESPEARE as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls nakedβmeaning and...
Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua - Samuel Downing Moore
Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua - Samuel Downing Moore
- Author: Samuel Downing Moore
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was a former slave, native of West Africa. He was sold as a slave in 1845 and worked in Brazil as a captive; however, when the ship where he was enslaved crew was at the harbor in New York in 1847, he fled. He studied at the...
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 4 - Charles F. Horne
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 4 - Charles F. Horne
- Author: Charles F. Horne
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history. Volume 4: John Adams, Louis Agassiz, Prince von Bismarck, Simon Bolivar, Edmund Burke, Jean François Champollion, Grover Cleveland,...
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits - William Hazlitt
The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits - William Hazlitt
- Author: William Hazlitt
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illustrious persons as Jeremy Bentham, known for his philosophy of utility, William Godwin, who raised the...
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 - Various
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Short non-fiction
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administration. They consist of verbatim records of personal interviews with former slaves conducted during...
The Home Life of Poe - Susan Archer Weiss
The Home Life of Poe - Susan Archer Weiss
- Author: Susan Archer Weiss
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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 author, but confined myself to his private home-life, domestic and social, as I have heard it described by Poe's...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Maisie Ward
Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Maisie Ward
- Author: Maisie Ward
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 β 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and...
The Medici, Volume 1 - G. F. Young
The Medici, Volume 1 - G. F. Young
- Author: G. F. Young
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography / History
This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zenith of power and influence, to its eventual decay and ruin. It outlines their history in conjunction with the...
Partial Portraits - Henry James
Partial Portraits - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some known personally by him. We see into the creative workings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Anthony...
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed - William Alexander MacKay
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad, or, How to Succeed - William Alexander MacKay
- Author: William Alexander MacKay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Self-Help
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East and part of West Zorra, and containing a population of about fourteen hundred. It was settled about the year...
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy - James Moores Ball
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy - James Moores Ball
- Author: James Moores Ball
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical / Early Modern
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the ancients, he instead dissected bodies and drew detailed illustrations of his observations. He was enormously...
The Medici, Volume 2 - G. F. Young
The Medici, Volume 2 - G. F. Young
- Author: G. F. Young
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zenith of power and influence, to its eventual decay and ruin. It outlines their history in conjunction with the...
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England - Charles H. Firth
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England - Charles H. Firth
- Author: Charles H. Firth
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Life of Cromwell is in part based on an article contributed by the author to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1888, but embodies the result of later researches, and of recently discovered documents such as the Clarke Papers. The battle...
Milton - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Milton - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He is best known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), a work of sublime imagery and...
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians (Version 2) - T. D. BONNER
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians (Version 2) - T. D. BONNER
- Author: T. D. BONNER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
James P. Beckworth, born in Virginia at the dawn of our Nation, moved with his family to eastern Missouri settling a few miles below what is now St. Charles. Still young, James began his education in the character of the Indian nations where he...
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla - A. H. Beesly
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla - A. H. Beesly
- Author: A. H. Beesly
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augustus Henry Beesly writes, "a brilliant period of foreign conquest had succeeded the 300 years in which she had...
Heroines of Service - Mary Rosetta Parkman
Heroines of Service - Mary Rosetta Parkman
- Author: Mary Rosetta Parkman
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were changing, allowing those with drive to serve in other capacities. In this volume, we briefly examine the lives...
The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1 - William E. Barton
The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1 - William E. Barton
- Author: William E. Barton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 β April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then...