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Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
- Author: Francis Tiffany
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea Dix met with people who were interested in reforming how the mentally ill were treated. Returning to America,...
Jerry McAuley: His Life and Work - Jerry MCAULEY
Jerry McAuley: His Life and Work - Jerry MCAULEY
- Author: Jerry MCAULEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in the United States. This book is a collection of his writings regarding his waywardness, his conversion and...
The Sainted Queens - Unknown
The Sainted Queens - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
A collection of short biographies of six Catholic Queens who became saints. Saint Margaret of Scotland - Saint Elisabeth of Portugal - Saint Clotildus, Saint Ragedund, and Saint Bathildis, all Queens of the Franks - and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary....
Nero - Jacob Abbott
Nero - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Nero tells the life story of one of the most infamous of Roman Emperors. - Summary by Deon Gines...
A Group of Famous Women - Edith HORTON
A Group of Famous Women - Edith HORTON
- Author: Edith HORTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
It is a remarkable fact that little attention, if any, has been given to the study of the careers of distinguished women, and the question has often been asked why short biographies should not be prepared, in order that the pupils in our schools...
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography - Robert R. Moton
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography - Robert R. Moton
- Author: Robert R. Moton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships / History
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time to reflect upon the impressions made upon my mind by experiences that I could not always reconcile with what I had...
Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume II - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume II - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st century, this two-volume autobiography was published in 1924 and contains many works never before released. It came...
The Story of My Life and Work - Booker T. Washington
The Story of My Life and Work - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser to presidents. As an educator founded the Tuskegee Institute and championed higher education to those who were...
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funeral. The volume also includes a lengthy appendix which contains, in chronological order, letters. telegrams...
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green - John MacCunn
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green - John MacCunn
- Author: John MacCunn
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. In this volume, the Scottish philosopher, John MacCunn, presents the life and thought of Jeremy Bentham, John...
Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell - Frederick Bridge
Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell - Frederick Bridge
- Author: Frederick Bridge
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Brief sketches of the lives and music of 12 well-known musicians. - Summary by KevinS...
The Story of My Life, Part 1 (Version 3) - Helen KELLER
The Story of My Life, Part 1 (Version 3) - Helen KELLER
- Author: Helen KELLER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
When Helen Keller's autobiography was first published in 1903, she was a young woman studying at Radcliffe College. In it, Helen shares memories of her childhood, describes how Miss Sullivan helped her learn how to communicate, and reflects on her...
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire - Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire - Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
- Author: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political history of Germany from medieval to modern times, culminating in the career of Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898),...
Cyrus the Great - Jacob Abbott
Cyrus the Great - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This history is the story of Cyrus, the founder of the Persian Empire, sixth century BC. - Summary by Deon Gines...
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Version 2) - Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain (Version 2) - Van Wyck Brooks
- Author: Van Wyck Brooks
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Writing & Linguistics
The Ordeal of Mark Twain analyzes the literary progression of Samuel L. Clemens and attributes shortcomings to Clemens' mother and wife. The Encyclopaedia Britannica says, Brooks' work "was a psychological study attempting to show that Twain had...
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Author: Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literature and other arts including poets, artists, musicians, and orators. These range from well known figures such...
Lucretia Borgia - Ferdinand Gregorovius
Lucretia Borgia - Ferdinand Gregorovius
- Author: Ferdinand Gregorovius
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this because she was guilty of the most hideous crimes, or is it simply because she has been unjustly condemned by the...
Life and Writings of Addison - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Life and Writings of Addison - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Political Science
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, with Richard Steele, to the "The Spectator" magazine. In this essay, Macaulay portrays the life and work of...
The Empresses of Rome - Joseph Martin McCabe
The Empresses of Rome - Joseph Martin McCabe
- Author: Joseph Martin McCabe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
The story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of manβs deeds and failures have a more dramatic quality. The fresh aspect of this familiar story which I propose to...
Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409 - Oscar Browning
Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409 - Oscar Browning
- Author: Oscar Browning
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy Roman Empire, others joining forces with the Guelph armies of the Papacy. Mercenary captains led hired bands...
Locke - Thomas Fowler
Locke - Thomas Fowler
- Author: Thomas Fowler
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Political Science / Early Modern
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricists and an important contributor to Social Contract Theory. In this fine biography, Thomas Fowler writes of...
Twelve Types - G. K. Chesterton
Twelve Types - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Short biographical essays of twelve persons central to European culture. - Summary by KevinS...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
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...
The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530 - Oscar Browning
The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530 - Oscar Browning
- Author: Oscar Browning
- Genre: War & Military / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary companies and multinational armies who fought in the service of city states, monarchs, and the Pope. Some like...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897) - Oscar Wilde
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to the friends who stood by him after his arrest, and ends with discussions of his plans for after his release....
Hypatia - John TOLAND
Hypatia - John TOLAND
- Author: John TOLAND
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Hypatia is John Toland's biography of the one he calls "a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplishβd lady, who was torn to pieces by the clergy of Alexandria, to gratify the pride, emulation, and cruelty of their...
How They Succeeded - Orison Swett Marden
How They Succeeded - Orison Swett Marden
- Author: Orison Swett Marden
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Success! Alluring, fascinating, informative. Why are some people successful while others languish on the scrap heap of life? Hard work? Luck? Nepotism? Genius? Here we have the Life Stories of Successful Men (and Women) Told by Themselves. 22 people...
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 - Ward Hill LAMON
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 - Ward Hill LAMON
- Author: Ward Hill LAMON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very existence of the United States, which was already falling apart. Ward Hill Lamon was, in effect, his first Secret...
The Life of St. Dominic Savio - John Bosco
The Life of St. Dominic Savio - John Bosco
- Author: John Bosco
- Genre: Religion / Biography & Autobiography
This it the most authentic biography of St. Dominic Savio, seeing as it is written by St. John Bosco, Savio's teacher. (Summary by Mozartjr)...
Mozart's Youth - Franz Hoffmann
Mozart's Youth - Franz Hoffmann
- Author: Franz Hoffmann
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music
This short account of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is part of the βLife Stories for Young Peopleβ series. It is written in an engaging dialogue format beginning with the young Mozartβs first notes on the piano keyboard at age three to his...
Charles II - Osmund AIRY
Charles II - Osmund AIRY
- Author: Osmund AIRY
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am an ugly fellow!" Yet, as Airy writes, "his power of imagination, his intuitive perception of character, his faculty of...
My Actor-Husband - Anonymous
My Actor-Husband - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and strict adherence to the truth, relative to the conditions which surround the player. In no instance has there...
My Larger Education - Booker T. Washington
My Larger Education - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contains answers to the questions I have frequently been asked as to how I have worked out for myself the educational...
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Summary by Gillian Hendrie and Wikipedia...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 7 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 7 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
A History of Astronomy - Walter W. BRYANT
A History of Astronomy - Walter W. BRYANT
- Author: Walter W. BRYANT
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occupation of priests, move with the help of the Arabs through the middle ages to the (re-) discovery of the...
Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Autobiography: With An Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine - Volume I - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
While the Mark Twain Project has created and released a three-volume Mark Twain autobiography with extensive annotations, in the 21st century, this two-volume autobiography was published in 1924 and contains many works never before released. It came...
Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough - Louise Creighton
Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough - Louise Creighton
- Author: Louise Creighton
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was the oldest surviving son of Sir Winston Churchill, an impoverished country gentleman. After the restoration of Charles II, John's sister, Arabella, became the mistress of the King's brother,...
Xerxes, Makers of History - Jacob Abbott
Xerxes, Makers of History - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
This history covers the years of Xerxes' years as ruler of the Persian empire and invasion of Greece. - Summary by Deon Gines...
Sir Titus Salt, Baronet, His Life and Its Lessons - Robert Balgarnie
Sir Titus Salt, Baronet, His Life and Its Lessons - Robert Balgarnie
- Author: Robert Balgarnie
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, where he provided cleaner air, better housing, schooling,...