Biography Books

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is a biography by Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean W..

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet - An Autobiography

Charles Kingsley

The tract appended to this preface has been chosen to accompany this reprint of Alton Locke in order to illustrate, from another side, a distinct period in the life of Charles Kingsley, which stands o..

The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me

William Allen White

The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me is a personal narrative of William Allen White, an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and h..

Reminiscences of a Rebel

Wayland Fuller Dunaway

Notwithstanding the title of this volume, I do not admit that I was ever in any true sense a rebel, neither do I intend any disrespect when I call the Northern soldiers Yankees. The use of these terms..

Caesar - A Sketch

James Anthony Froude

The Author called this work a "sketch" because the materials do not exist for a portrait which shall be at once authentic and complete. The original authorities which are now extant for the life of Ca..

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella L. Bird

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is biographical work of Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. A ..

She Stands Accused

Victor MacClure

She Stands Accused is a female criminal offender's biography written by Victor MacClure. This book being a Series of Accounts of the Lives and Deeds of Notorious Women, Murderesses, Cheats, Cozeners, ..

The First Hundred Thousand - Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)"

Ian Hay

The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)" is a personal narrative written by Major General John Hay Beith, CBE, was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he..