Biography Books

Mary Slessor of Calabar - Pioneer Missionary

W. P. Livingstone

Life for most people is governed by authority and convention, but behind these there lies always the mystery of human nature, uncertain and elusive, and apt now and again to go off at a tangent and di..

Pyrrhus, King of Epirus

Jacob Abbott

In 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 Gosse

Numerous 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 Gaskell

The 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 Smith

Cowper 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 Valois

The 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 Schofield

Most 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 Harris

Consumers 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..