Biography Books

Marie Corelli - The Writer and the Woman

T. F. G. Coates

Miss Marie Corelli’s unique personality has aroused interest and curiosity among all classes of society, and we are aware that the present work will be diligently searched for intimate information reg..

A Child of the Orient

Demetra Vaka

I was disappointed at her reception of it, and to save my little flag from feeling the mortification I hugged it and kissed it. I wanted very much to explain to Kiamelé all that it stood for, and how ..

Søren Hjorth - Inventor of the Dynamo-electric Principle

Sigurd Smith

Søren Hjorth was born on the 13th of October, 1801. He spent his childhood at Vesterbygaard, an estate rented by his father, Jens Hjorth, in Jordløse Parish, north of Tissø. His mother’s maiden name w..

Du Bose Heyward - A Critical and Biographical Sketch

Hervey Allen

There was a fashion amongst a certain school of critics and literati of former years to go about the country with dark lanterns ready to flash their microscopic spot lights upon this or that author, a..

The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth

Trumbull White

The history of any man who had been able to distinguish himself by acquiring in his lifetime the greatest amount of wealth ever accumulated by one man, would necessarily be of interest, even if his su..

The Life and Works of Joseph Wright

William Bemrose

The name of Joseph Wright, of Derby, once of high repute among English Artists, has, during the last half-century and more, sunk, altogether undeservedly, into a state of semi-oblivion. Even if s..

Mrs. Siddons

Nina H. Kennard

In spite of Mrs. Siddons’s professed shrinking from the celebrity that biographers would confer upon her, and her preference for the “still small voice of tender relatives and estimable friends,” we k..

Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner (Vol. 1 of 2)

Bertha Von Suttner

It is a great gratification to me that the story of my life—which I cannot suppose to be of general interest except in so far as it is linked with the story of a world-wide movement—is now put before ..