Biography Books

The Black Man - His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements

William Wells Brown

The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements the biographical works of African-American written by William Wells Brown. The second class are those who are ignorant of the character..

The Ways of War

Tom Kettle

Perhaps the order of the chapters in the present book requires a word of explanation. They have a natural sequence as the confessions of an Irish man of letters as to why he felt called upon to offer ..

Narratives of Colored Americans

Abigail Mott

Lindley Murray, the Grammarian, and author of several excellent School and Reading books, in his last Will bequeathed certain funds to Trustees in America, his native country, for several benevolent o..

Sir George Etienne Cartier - His Work for Canada and His Services to Montreal

John Boyd

Cartier was the leader of the Quebec wing of the Coalition Ministry. He was a delegate to the Charlottetown Conference, as well as a member of the Quebec Conference. He took a leading part in the Conf..

The Rising Son

Wm. Wells Brown

Several of the biographical sketches are necessarily brief, owing to the difficulty in getting correct information in regard to the subjects treated upon. Some have been omitted on account of the same..

Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Weston, the seat of the Earl of Bradford

Mary Louisa Boyle

In this last work, to other stumbling-blocks has been added the pressure of ill-health and deep sorrow; against these obstacles I have fought as stoutly as I could, cheered on by the hope of giving sa..

Men, Women, and Books

Augustine Birrell

Swift has unhappily written some abominable verses, which ought never to have been set up in type; but the ‘Legion Club,’ the verses on his own death, ‘Cadenus and Vanessa,’ the ‘Rhapsody on Poetry,’ ..

Narrative of Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown

My book will present, if possible, the beautiful side of the picture of slavery; will entertain you with stories of partial kindness on the part of my master, and of comparative enjoyment on my own pa..