The Biographies Collection brings together the great life stories of the public domain — memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies of the statesmen, writers, explorers, and reformers who shaped the modern world. From Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Frederick Douglass’s slave narrative to the lives of monarchs, generals, and artists, these are first-hand and definitive accounts of remarkable lives.
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- The Love Letters of Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft
- Bidwell’s TravelsAustin Bidwell
- My Life — Volume 1Richard Wagner
- Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
- Emily BrontëA. Mary F. Robinson
- Life of Olaudah EquianoOlaudah Equiano
- The Confessions of St. AugustineAugustine of Hippo
- The Memoirs of the ConquistadorBernal Díaz del Castillo
- Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine, 1796–1812Emperor of the French Napoleon I
- The Anabasis of AlexanderArrian
- Shakespeare’s FamilyC. C. Stopes
- Rizal’s Own Story of His LifeJosé Rizal
- Harriet MartineauFlorence Fenwick Miller
- Some Jewish Witnesses For ChristAaron Bernstein
- The Waterloo Roll CallCharles Dalton
- A Pickle for the Knowing OnesTimothy Dexter
- Selected Works of Voltairine de CleyreVoltairine De Cleyre
- Modern English BiographyFrederic Boase
- Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass
- The Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersDiogenes Laertius
- A Little English GalleryLouise Imogen Guiney
- Reminiscences of a Stock OperatorEdwin Lefevre
- Life on the MississippiMark Twain
- The Roll of Honour, Volume 1marquis de Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval
- Pen-Portraits of Literary Women
- De ProfundisOscar Wilde
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys — CompleteSamuel Pepys
- The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, CompleteSuetonius
- Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, HumanitarianAlma Lutz
- Narrative of the CaptivityMary White Rowlandson
- My Life and LovesFrank Harris
- Autobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda
- Anarchism and Other EssaysEmma Goldman
- Biographia LiterariaSamuel Taylor Coleridge
- Life of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin
- More Letters of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin
- 灵历集光Shangjie Song
- Memoirs of the Author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”William Godwin
- The Germany and the Agricola of TacitusCornelius Tacitus
- My Own StoryEmmeline Pankhurst
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlHarriet Jacobs
- The Romance of BiographyMrs. Jameson
- Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1Giorgio Vasari
- Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vincida Vinci Leonardo
- Twelve Years a SlaveSolomon Northup
- Fifty Years in the NorthwestWilliam H. C. Folsom
- The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol. 1Queen of Great Britain Victoria
- As I RememberMarian Gouverneur
- Herman Melville, Mariner and MysticRaymond M. Weaver
- The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)Emperor of Hindustan Babur
- Society as I Have Found ItWard McAllister
- A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography
- Anzeiger für Kunde der deutschen VorzeitVarious
- Darkwater: Voices from Within the VeilW. E. B. Du Bois
- A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography
- Life of St. Francis of AssisiPaul Sabatier
- English Eccentrics and EccentricitiesJohn Timbs
- The Memoirs of Admiral Lord BeresfordBaron Charles William De la Poer Beresford Beresford
- Sketches of Successful New Hampshire MenVarious
- Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- The Journal of Sir Walter ScottWalter Scott
- Old Times on the Upper MississippiGeorge Byron Merrick
- Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino, 1836–1840duchesse de Dorothée Dino
- Cornish Characters and Strange EventsS. Baring-Gould
- A Japanese BoyShigemi Shiukichi
- Up from Slavery: An AutobiographyBooker T. Washington
- The Story of My LifeHelen Keller
- Scenes in the Life of Harriet TubmanSarah H. Bradford
- Fifty Years in Wall StreetHenry Clews
- All in the Day's Work: An AutobiographyIda M. Tarbell
- PlutarchPlutarch
- Confessions of Jean Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau
- Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — CompleteLouis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Memoirs of Louis XIVduc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
- Der Marquis de Sade und seine ZeitIwan Bloch
- The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804–1806Meriwether Lewis
- Confessions of an English Opium-EaterThomas De Quincey
- My Bondage and My FreedomFrederick Douglass
- Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Lives of Fair and GallantPierre de Bourdeille Brantôme
- Boswell’s Life of JohnsonJames Boswell
- Memoirs of the Court of Marie AntoinetteMadame Campan
- Life of José RizalAustin Craig
- Complete Prose WorksWalt Whitman
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. GrantUlysses S. Grant
- The Life of Charles DickensJohn Forster
- The Writings of Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson
- Apologia pro vita suaJohn Henry Newman
- Sword and PenJohn Algernon Owens
- The Book-HunterJohn Hill Burton
- Charles Frohman: Manager and ManIsaac F. Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
- My Recollections of Lord Byroncontessa di Teresa Guiccioli
- RecollectionsDavid Christie Murray
- The Magnificent MontezHorace Wyndham
- American Indian Stories Zitkala-Ša
- My ReminiscencesRabindranath Tagore
- Plantation SketchesMargaret Devereux
- Seven and Nine Years Among the Camanches and ApachesEdwin Eastman
- Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon
- A Poor Man’s HouseStephen Reynolds
- Daughters of the PuritansSeth Curtis Beach
- The Hero of the FilipinosCharles Edward Russell & E. B. Rodriguez
- The Letters of Jane AustenJane Austen
- Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil WarG. F. R. Henderson
- Theodore Roosevelt: An AutobiographyTheodore Roosevelt
- Oscar WildeGuy Thorne
- Lord George BentinckBenjamin Disraeli
- Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and JournalsLouisa May Alcott
- William ShakespeareJohn Masefield
- The Life and Speeches of Rutherford B. HayesJ. Q. Howard
- Familiar LettersHenry David Thoreau
- Lewis and ClarkWilliam R. Lighton
- John LylyJohn Dover Wilson
- Indian Child LifeCharles A. Eastman
- The Story of My Life, Volumes 4–6 Augustus J. C. Hare
- Twentieth Century Negro LiteratureDaniel Wallace Culp (editor)
- Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie
- Memoir of Jane AustenJames Edward Austen-Leigh
- Personal Memoirs of P. H. SheridanPhilip H. Sheridan
- Jane Austen and Her TimesG. E. Mitton
- Iamblichus’ Life of PythagorasIamblichus
- Benjamin Franklin: Representative SelectionsBenjamin Franklin
- Memories and AdventuresArthur Conan Doyle
- Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Edward Stowe
- Jane Austen and Her WorksSarah Tytler
- The Autobiography of Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair
- Ralph Waldo EmersonOliver Wendell Holmes
- Giovanni Boccaccio Edward Hutton
- Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement Shorter
- George Eliot: A Critical StudyGeorge Willis Cooke
- Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. LeeJr. Robert E. Lee
- An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope
- Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne John Keats
- The Story of My Life, Volumes 1–3 Augustus J. C. Hare
- John Keats: His Life and Poetry Sidney Colvin
- Struggles and Triumphs P. T. Barnum
- Hidden Treasures Harry A. Lewis
- Wesley’s Designated Successor Luke Tyerman
- John Barleycorn Jack London
- The Life of George Borrow Herbert Jenkins
- Annie Besant: An Autobiography Annie Besant
- Heroines of the Modern Stage Forrest Izard
- John Brown W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Life of Bret Harte Henry Childs Merwin
- The Personal Life of David Livingstone William Garden Blaikie
- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi Joseph Grimaldi
- Eccentricities of Genius James B. Pond
- The Road Jack London
- Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell Charlotte Brontë
- Robert Browning G. K. Chesterton
- A Life of Walt Whitman Henry Bryan Binns
- Murat Alexandre Dumas
- George Borrow and His Circle Clement Shorter
- The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen Leslie Stephen
- Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black
- The Letters of Hart Crane Hart Crane
- Brave Men and Women O. E. Fuller
- Three Generations Maud Howe Elliott
- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth
- Reminiscences, 1819–1899 Julia Ward Howe
- Francis Beaumont: Dramatist Charles Mills Gayley
- Robert Browning Edward Dowden
- Life on the Stage Clara Morris
- The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson Harriette Wilson
- The Life of Lyman Trumbull Horace White
- Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble
- 20 Hrs., 40 Min. Amelia Earhart
- Henry D. Thoreau F. B. Sanborn
- James Fenimore Cooper Mary E. Phillips
- Margaret Ogilvy J. M. Barrie
- A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher William C. Beecher and Samuel Scoville
- Nathaniel Parker Willis Henry A. Beers
- The True Story of My Life Hans Christian Andersen
- Literary Friends and Acquaintance William Dean Howells
- All the Days of My Life Amelia E. Barr
- Yesterdays with Authors James T. Fields
- Harriet, the Moses of Her People Sarah H. Bradford
- A New Medley of Memories David Hunter Blair
- Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous John Guille Millais
- Word Portraits of Famous Writers Mabel E. Wotton
- Life of John Sterling Thomas Carlyle
- How They Succeeded Orison Swett Marden
- Life of Robert Browning William Sharp
- The Puppet Show of Memory Maurice Baring
- The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences Frederick Treves
- Life of Charles Dickens Frank T. Marzials
- Keats Sidney Colvin
- Marie Bashkirtseff: From Childhood to Girlhood Marie Bashkirtseff
- Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott Jessie Bonstelle and Marian de Forest
- Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
- Life and Letters of John Gay Lewis Melville
- The Life of David Brainerd Jonathan Edwards
- Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Charles Belmont Davis
- Life and Letters of Robert Browning Mrs. Sutherland Orr
- The Life of Abraham Lincoln Ward Hill Lamon
- Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers W. E. Winks
- The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns
- Theodore Watts-Dunton James Douglas
- Life of John Keats William Michael Rossetti
- My Larger Education Booker T. Washington
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving Bram Stoker
- The Biography of Robert Murray M’Cheyne Andrew A. Bonar
- Anthony Trollope: His Work, Associates and Literary Originals T. H. S. Escott
- The Letters of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce
- My Life as an Author Martin Farquhar Tupper
- Father and Son Edmund Gosse
- Shadow and Light Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
- The Life of Albert Gallatin Henry Adams
- The Brownings, Their Life and Art Lilian Whiting
- The Americanization of Edward Bok Edward William Bok
- Give the Man Room Robert J. Casey and Mary Borglum
- George Bernard Shaw G. K. Chesterton
- Queens of the French Stage H. Noel Williams
- Charles Dickens: A Critical Study G. K. Chesterton
- Concerning Lafcadio Hearn George M. Gould
- Life of Octavia Hill as Told in Her Letters Octavia Hill
- The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- The Life of Francis Thompson Everard Meynell
- Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Raleigh
- A New England Girlhood Lucy Larcom
- The Making of a Novelist David Christie Murray
- Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home Belle Moses
- George Eliot Mathilde Blind
- Robert Toombs Pleasant A. Stovall
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- The Trembling of the Veil W. B. Yeats
- The Story of Mary MacLane Mary MacLane
- Famous Givers and Their Gifts Sarah K. Bolton
- The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns
- The Life of La Fayette Lydia Hoyt Farmer
- Jeanne d’Arc Margaret Oliphant
- Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman’s Life Mrs. Alec-Tweedie
- A Personal Record Joseph Conrad
- A. W. Kinglake William Tuckwell
- The Life of John Bunyan Edmund Venables
- Lafcadio Hearn Nina H. Kennard
- Robert Browning C. H. Herford
- Books and Bidders A. S. W. Rosenbach
- The Earl of Beaconsfield James Anthony Froude
- The Love Affairs of Lord Byron Francis Gribble
- Matthew Arnold G. W. E. Russell
- The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
- All in a Life-Time Henry Morgenthau
- Mark Twain Archibald Henderson
- Oliver Goldsmith Washington Irving
- From Immigrant to Inventor Michael Pupin
- Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Piozzi
- Far Away and Long Ago W. H. Hudson
- Herbert Spencer J. Arthur Thomson
- Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century Georg Brandes
- Essay on Burns Thomas Carlyle
- Memoirs of Charles Godfrey Leland Charles Godfrey Leland
- The Ordeal of Mark Twain Van Wyck Brooks
- Crabbe Alfred Ainger
- Life of John Milton Richard Garnett
- Margot Asquith: An Autobiography Margot Asquith
- Stories of Invention Edward Everett Hale
- My Memoirs Marguerite Steinheil
- The Story of My Life Georg Ebers
- Mary Boyle, Her Book Mary Louisa Boyle
- The Dreamer Mary Newton Stanard
- Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear Nicholas Rowe
- Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse
- Records of Later Life Fanny Kemble
- Some Reminiscences Joseph Conrad
- Charles Baudelaire, His Life Théophile Gautier
- William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Elizabeth A. Sharp
- Memories of a Hostess M. A. DeWolfe Howe
- The Best Letters of Charles Lamb Charles Lamb
- Memoirs of Aaron Burr Matthew L. Davis
- The Life and Studies of Benjamin West John Galt
- Henry James Rebecca West
- Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and DiaryDaniel Dulany Addison
- Life of Tecumseh and His Brother the Prophet Benjamin Drake
- Frédéric Mistral Charles Alfred Downer
- Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Georg Brandes
- Memories of My Life Sarah Bernhardt
- The Women Who Make Our Novels Grant Overton
- Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin Robert Louis Stevenson
- There Was Once a Slave Shirley Graham Du Bois
- Mahatma Gandhi Romain Rolland
- Byron: The Last Phase Richard Edgcumbe
- In Bohemia with Du Maurier Felix Moscheles
- Notable Women Authors of the Day Helen C. Black
- Charles Dickens as a Reader Charles Kent
- The Life of Kit Carson Edward S. Ellis
- Marion Harland’s Autobiography Marion Harland
- The Life of Henry Bradley Plant G. Hutchinson Smyth
- Mary Russell Mitford William J. Roberts
- Frederick Douglass Charles W. Chesnutt
- Memoirs of William Wordsworth George Searle Phillips
- Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough
- The Three Brontës May Sinclair
- William Blake, the Man Charles Gardner
- Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Robinson Mary Robinson
- The Narrative of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
- The Story of the Herschels Anonymous
- Jasmin Samuel Smiles
- A Book About Myself Theodore Dreiser
- William Blake G. K. Chesterton
- Heroines of French Society Catherine Bearne
- The Iron Puddler James J. Davis
- John Jacob Astor Elbert Hubbard
- A Book of Sibyls Anne Thackeray Ritchie
- Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne
- Tramping on Life Harry Kemp
- Bacon R. W. Church
- Boswell the Biographer George Mallory
- Honoré de Balzac Albert Keim
- Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie Cecilia Lucy Brightwell
- Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph T. Wemyss Reid
- My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands George Francis Train
- Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder Shan F. Bullock
- Life of Frances Power Cobbe Frances Power Cobbe
- Marse Henry Henry Watterson
- Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel Mrs. John Herschel
- Memoirs of Life and Literature W. H. Mallock
- Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
- The Log-Cabin Lady Anonymous
- Irish Memories E. Œ. Somerville
- Modern Leaders Justin McCarthy
- Horace Walpole: A Memoir Austin Dobson
- James Russell Lowell and His Friends Edward Everett Hale
- Life and Lillian Gish Albert Bigelow Paine
- Thomas Carlyle G. K. Chesterton
- Tracks of a Rolling Stone Henry J. Coke
- John Forster Percy Fitzgerald
- Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner
- Life of Charles Darwin G. T. Bettany
- The Making of an American Jacob A. Riis
- Chesterton as Seen by His Contemporaries Cyril Clemens
- Fanny Burney and Her Friends Fanny Burney
- Kansas Women in Literature Nettie Garmer Barker
- The Middle Years Henry James
- Henry Fielding: A Memoir G. M. Godden
- The White Queen of Okoyong W. P. Livingstone
- Haeckel: His Life and Work Wilhelm Bölsche
- Confessions of a Young Man George Moore
- Margaret Fuller Julia Ward Howe
- My Mark Twain William Dean Howells
- Thackerayana Joseph Grego
- Fabre, Poet of Science Georges Victor Legros
- Charles Lamb Walter Jerrold
- Curiosities of Human Nature Samuel G. Goodrich
- Far Off Things Arthur Machen
- Marie Corelli: The Writer and the Woman Thomas F. G. Coates and R. S. Warren Bell
- Thomas Moore Stephen Gwynn
- John James Audubon John Burroughs
- Mary Slessor of Calabar W. P. Livingstone
- Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors George Iles
- A Long Way from Home Claude McKay
- The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets William Winstanley
- In the Courts of Memory Lillie de Hegermann-Lindencrone
- A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay Louisa Brooks and Alice Drummond-Hay
- Autobiographical Sketches Annie Besant
- The Life of Bayard Taylor Russell H. Conwell
- The Life of George Borrow Clement Shorter
- Autobiographic Sketches Thomas De Quincey
- Sidney Lanier Edwin Mims
- Life of a Scotch Naturalist Samuel Smiles
- The Secret of Charlotte Brontë Frederika Macdonald
- George Borrow: The Man and His Books Edward Thomas
- Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings Z. S. Hastings
- Our Family Affairs E. F. Benson
- Charles Darwin Grant Allen
- Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton
- Balzac Edgar Saltus
- A Lady of the Last Century John Doran
- Thackeray Anthony Trollope
- Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine
- Old John Brown Walter Hawkins
- Complete Life of William McKinley Marshall Everett
- Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck Jethro Bithell
- Samuel Johnson Leslie Stephen
- Letters of Ignatius Sancho Ignatius Sancho
- Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
- Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand
- The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies Walter Besant
- Elizabeth Fry Emma Raymond Pitman
- Thomas Carlyle John Nichol
- Years of My Youth William Dean Howells
- The Life of Lord Byron John Galt
- Studies in Contemporary Biography James Bryce
- The Life of Mrs. Humphry Ward Janet Penrose Trevelyan
- Bunyan James Anthony Froude
- Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang
- The Story of Lewis Carroll Isa Bowman
- The Blackwood Group George Douglas
- Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury
- Dickens Adolphus William Ward
- Nat Goodwin’s Book Nat C. Goodwin
- Alfred Tennyson Andrew Lang
- The Life and Times of John Kelly J. Fairfax McLaughlin
- Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence
- Recollections of Full Years Helen Herron Taft
- A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales
- What the Judge Saw Edward Abbott Parry
- Famous American Statesmen Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books Horatia K. F. Eden
- Mrs. Gaskell Elizabeth Gaskell
- Washington Irving Henry Walcott Boynton
- William Hickling Prescott Harry Thurston Peck
- Balzac Frederick Lawton
- Narrative of Henry Box Brown Henry Box Brown
- The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Candide Chalippe
- Percy Bysshe Shelley John Addington Symonds
- John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings William Sloane Kennedy
- Rube Burrow, King of Outlaws George W. Agee
- Andrew Marvell Augustine Birrell
- Coleridge H. D. Traill
- Fanny Burney Austin Dobson
- The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler Harry Carter
- Champlain N.-E. Dionne
- Exits and Entrances Eva Moore
- Madame Roland Ida M. Tarbell
- The Autobiography of a Clown Isaac F. Marcosson
- Karl Marx Achille Loria
- From Crow-Scaring to WestminsterSir George Edwards
- Out of the Briars A. H. Newton
- A Story Teller’s Story Sherwood Anderson
- Sketches From My Life Hobart Pasha
- The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp W. H. Davies
- John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Charles Stewart Parnell: His Love Story and Political Life Katharine O’Shea
- The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Thomas Longueville
- Set Down in Malice Gerald Cumberland
- Shelley John Addington Symonds
- My Life, or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson George Thompson
- Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life Lydia Maria Child
- Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labours René Vallery-Radot
- Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry
- Further Memories Lord Redesdale
- Joseph Bonaparte John S. C. Abbott
- Knut Hamsun Hanna Astrup Larsen
- An American Idyll Cornelia Stratton Parker
- Maria Edgeworth Helen Zimmern
- Some Eminent Women of Our Times Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Gibbon James Cotter Morison
- Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul Pius a Spiritu Sancto
- From the Bottom Up Alexander Irvine
- Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy William Francis Gekle
- Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind Frances Martin
- Madame Roland John S. C. Abbott
- Lola Montez Edmund B. d’Auvergne
- Sketches from Concord and Appledore Frank Preston Stearns
- Biographies of Working Men Grant Allen
- Addison W. J. Courthope
- Beneath the Banner F. J. Cross
- The Memoirs of Maria Stella Maria Stella, Lady Newborough
- My Mamie Rose Owen Kildare
- Sydney Smith George W. E. Russell
- I’d Like to Do It Again Owen Davis
- Life of Abraham Lincoln Frank Crosby
- Me Onoto Watanna
- Cesare Lombroso Hans Kurella
- Dave Ranney Dave Ranney
- Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work Vernon Kellogg
- Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend Lilian Whiting
- Famous Leaders among Men Sarah K. Bolton
- Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr
- Authors at Home Jeannette L. Gilder
- Charles Robert Maturin: His Life and Works Niilo Idman
- The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood George Frisbie Whicher
- Reveries over Childhood and Youth W. B. Yeats
- Samuel Butler: A Sketch Henry Festing Jones
- Albert Ballin Bernhard Huldermann
- Mohammed Roy F. Dibble
- In the Footprints of Charles Lamb Benjamin Ellis Martin
- Mere Mortals C. MacLaurin
- Samuel Reynolds House of Siam George Haws Feltus
- Empty Chairs Squire Bancroft
- Ninon de l’Enclos and Her Century Mary C. Rowsell
- Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer Samuel Thompson
- Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Four Famous American Writers Sherwin Cody
- Oliver Wendell Holmes William Dean Howells
- The Truth About an Author Arnold Bennett
- A Group of Famous Women Edith Horton
- Memories Grave and Gay Florence Howe Hall
- Edgar Saltus: The Man Marie Saltus
- Life of Sir Walter Scott Robert Chambers
- A Discourse on Gulian Crommelin Verplanck William Cullen Bryant
- Ellen Terry and Her Sisters T. Edgar Pemberton
- Painted Windows Elia W. Peattie
- The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins
- Lives of the English Poets from Johnson to Kirke White Henry Francis Cary
- The Remains of Mrs. Richard Trench Melesina Trench
- Macaulay’s Life of Samuel Johnson Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Memories and Anecdotes Kate Sanborn
- Clemenceau, the Man and His Time H. M. Hyndman
- Notes by the Way in a Sailor’s Life Arthur E. Knights
- Reminiscences of a Student’s Life Jane Ellen Harrison
- White Queen of the Cannibals A. J. Bueltmann
- The Early Life of Mark Rutherford William Hale White
- James Fenimore Cooper Thomas R. Lounsbury
- Ned Myers James Fenimore Cooper
- A Day with Keats May Byron
- The Gentleman from Everywhere James Henry Foss
- My Father as I Recall Him Mamie Dickens
- My Life Josiah Flynt
- Memoir of a Brother Thomas Hughes
- Milton John Bailey
- Recollections and Impressions Octavius Brooks Frothingham
- Test Pilot Jimmy Collins
- Life of Bunyan James Hamilton
- The Long Day Dorothy Richardson
- Memoir of Mary L. Ware Edward B. Hall
- Alexander Pope Leslie Stephen
- My Literary Passions William Dean Howells
- Authors and Friends Annie Fields
- Memoirs of the Life of David Rittenhouse William Barton
- Seven Wives and Seven Prisons L. A. Abbott
- Dorothy Wordsworth Edmund Lee
- John Law of Lauriston A. W. Wiston-Glynn
- Monsieur Henri Louise Imogen Guiney
- Sterne H. D. Traill
- A Child of the Sea Elizabeth Whitney Williams
- Sarah Bernhardt as I Knew Her Madame Pierre Berton
- The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb
- Sarah Bernhardt Jules Huret
- Alexander Balfour R. H. Lundie
- D’Orsay W. Teignmouth Shore
- Heroines of Service Mary R. Parkman
- In Good Company Coulson Kernahan
- The Story of a Summer Cecilia Cleveland
- Early Memories John Butler Yeats
- R. L. Stevenson Frank Swinnerton
- Behind the Screen Samuel Goldwyn
- William E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager William L. Keese
- Four Years W. B. Yeats
- Sir Walter Scott George Saintsbury
- Thomas Henry Huxley Leonard Huxley
- My First Years as a FrenchwomanMary King Waddington