Biography Books

From Immigrant to Inventor

Michael Pupin

Looking back over the development of this volume throughout the year or more during which I have been writing it, it seems to me that I cannot better express the end I have had in view than to repeat ..

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Ignatius Sancho

The extraordinary Negro, whose Life I am about to write, was born A. D. 1729, on board a ship in the Slave trade, a few days after it had quitted the coast of Guinea for the Spanish West-Indies; and, ..

The Ladies of the White House

Laura C. Holloway

The Ladies of the White House have had no biographers. The custom of the Republic, which relegates back to private life those who have served it, has made it difficult to gather much of stirring inter..

A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume II

Richard Hildreth

The garden is the only place in which we Dutchmen, being treated in all respects little better than prisoners, have liberty to walk. It is commonly square, with a back door, and walled in very neatly...

Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee

Jarena Lee

At the time I had a book in my hand; it was on a Sabbath morning, about ten o’clock; to this place I resorted, where on coming to the water I sat down on the bank, and on my looking into it, it was su..

Memories of My Life

Sarah Bernhardt

My father used to come to the house of my Aunt Rosine, who was then living at 6 Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin. He was on friendly terms with Rossini, who lived at No. 4 in the same street. He often broug..

Life of Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe

The story of the beautiful life which came to an end on the 5th of April, 1904, is told by Miss Cobbe herself in the following pages up to the close of 1898. Nothing is left for another pen but to ske..

Memories and Adventures

Arthur Conan Doyle

During these first ten years I was a rapid reader, so rapid that some small library with which we dealt gave my mother notice that books would not be changed more than twice a day. My tastes were boyl..