Biography Books

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..

Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story

Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

The Hidatsas, called Minitaris by the Mandans, are a Siouan tribe and speak a language closely akin to that of the Crows. Wars with the Dakota Sioux forced them to ally themselves with the Mandans, wh..

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3

James Augustus St. John

PETER SIMON PALLAS: This traveller, whose works are comparatively little known in England, was born at Berlin, September 22, 1741. His father, who was an able surgeon, entertained the design of educat..

John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poems

Bliss Perry

Whittier’s direct contact with the soil and his intense interest in localities made him also an unequalled interpreter of sectional feeling. “Massachusetts to Virginia” is perhaps the finest example o..

The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 4

Richard Newton

Johnny was perplexed. He knew there must be some way of answering his father, but he did not know exactly how to do it. The right[10] thing would have been for him to say that, when our parents tell u..

Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

 I will only add that I begun this little book with a feeling towards Her Majesty of sincere veneration and gratitude, and that this feeling has been deepened by studying more closely than I had ..

The Life of That Wonderful and Extraordinarily Heavy Man, Daniel Lambert

Anonymous

Daniel Lambert was born on the 13 of March, 1770, in the Parish of St. Margaret, at Leicester. From the extraordinary bulk to which he attained, the reader may be naturally disposed to inquire, whethe..