Biography Books
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus
Jacob AbbottIn respect to the heroes of ancient history, who lived in times antecedent to the period when the regular records of authentic history commence, no reliance can be placed upon the actual verity of the..
Henrik Ibsen - Biography
Edmund GosseNumerous and varied as have been the analyses of Ibsen's works published, in all languages, since the completion of his writings, there exists no biographical study which brings together, on a general..
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThe Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a..
Cowper
Goldwin SmithCowper is the most important English poet of the period between Pope and the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley, which arose out of the intellectual ferment of the European Rev..
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Marguerite de ValoisThe Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted composition of the celebrated princess whose name they bear, the contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth; of equal..
Forty-Six Years in the Army
John McAllister SchofieldMost of the chapters constituting the contents of this volume, were written, from time to time, as soon as practicable after the events referred to, or after the publication of historical writings whi..
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
Frank HarrisConsumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarl..
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
Sarah J. RichardsonLife in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal is an authentic narrative of the horrors, mysteries, and cruelties of convent life written by Sarah J. Richardson...