Biography & Autobiography
Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover
The first of a two volume work looking at the lives of English queens in the Hanoverian period (1714-1901). This volume includes Sophia Doro…
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…
The Lives of the Queens of England
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…
Richelieu
This short biography of the dreaded red eminence, by the Anglo-French writer and educator, Gustave Masson, combines French wit and English c…
Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Sir Robert Hart
"Sir Robert Hart: The Romance of a Great Career" by Juliet Bredon is a biographical work that explores the remarkable life of Sir …
Pascal and the Port Royalists
Pascal is of the small number of those [men] in whom the man infinitely transcends his actions. The writings of Pascal are the finest that F…
Caroline the Illustrious
The second volume in the biography of Queen Caroline, Queen Consort and sometime Queen Regent of George II. Her relationships with the Churc…
Orion Clemens
Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825 – December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langh…