Portal:Biography

 

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Agricola, by Tacitus
• Anne Bradstreet and her time by Helen Stuart Campbell
• John James Audubon by John Burroughs

B

• Sir Samuel Bentham by Mary Sophia Bentham

C

• Portrait of Julius Caesar by Suetonius
• List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 by William Douglas Parish
• Cicero And The Fall Of The Roman Republic by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
• Life of Henry Clay by Carl Schurz
• The Poetical Works of William Cowper (introductory memoir) by William Benham

D

• Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton
• Antonín Dvořák by Jaroslav Egon Salaba-Vojan

E

• St. Edmund, King and Martyr, by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955(?) - 1020(?)). A literary account of the martyrdom of St. Edmund, a King of England.
• Biographical Memoir of George Engelmann, by Charles A. White.

F

• The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by Ernest Scott

G

• Galileo by Walter William Bryant (1918)
• James Gilmour of Mongolia by Richard Lovett

H

• Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry (transcription project)
• Herschel by Hector Macpherson
• Augustine Herrman, Beginner of the Virginia Tobacco Trade, Merchant of New Amsterdam and First Lord of Bohemia Manor in Maryland by Leon Heck
• Sir William Herschel, his life and works by Edward Singleton Holden
• Right Reverend Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, D. D. First Bishop of Central Pennsylvania: A Biographical Sketch by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Jr.
• The life and times of Master John Hus by František Lützow
• John Huss: his life, teachings and death, after five hundred years by David Schley Schaff

J

• The Life of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus

K

• Kepler by Walter William Bryant
• Friedrich Kapp article from The Nation

L

• Notice de la Vie et des Ecrits de George Louis Le Sage (English) by John Playfair
• The Story of Abraham Lincoln by James Baldwin
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 by John Hugh Bowers
• Abraham Lincoln: An Essay by Carl Schurz

M

• A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1888 by Diana Fontaine Maury Corbin
• President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Thomas G. Masaryk, 1919 by Jan Herben
• Men of Kent and Kentishmen (1892) by John Hutchinson

P

• Albert Parsons, by Albert Parsons
• Edgar Allen Poe - How to know him by Charles Alphonso Smith (start transcription)

R

• In Lockerbie Street: a little appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley, by Mabel Potter Daggett

S

• Biography of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Aviator
• Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography by Edmund Gosse from 11th Edition Britannica
• Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and Philosophy by Helen Zimmern, the influential work that introduced Schopenhauer and his philosophy to the English speaking world.
• Life of Pingali Suranarya (Pithapuram, 1941) (start transcription)

T

• Leo Tolstoy by Robert Nisbet Bain, 1903

V

• Voltaire by Edward Bruce Hamley

W

• Life of Isaiah V. Williamson by John Wanamaker, pub. 1928

Collections

• Ælfric's Lives of Saints
• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1888-1900)
• Biographia Hibernica (1822)
• A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers by Joseph McCabe (1945)
• A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen (1857) (incomplete) edited by Thomas Napier Thomson
• Biographies of Scientific Men by Arthur Bower Griffiths
• Cyclopædia of American Biographies (1903)
• The Cyclopædia of American Biography (1918)
• The Dictionary of Australasian Biography (1892)
• Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith
• Dictionary of National Biography edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, 63 volumes
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement 3 volumes
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement 3 volumes
• Goodspeed's Northwestern Arkansas/Biographical Appendix
• Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced The History of Their Times
• The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)
• The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, 1st-2nd century C.E., by Plutarch
• Men of 1914 (1915)
• The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 by James Grant Wilson (editor)
• Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis (early biographical sketches of Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, et.al., written in 1906).
• Representative Men, 1850, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Heroes Every Child Should Know by H. W. Mabie
• The Beginner's American History by David H. Montgomery
• Lives of the Eminent Commanders by Cornelius Nepos
• Makers of British botany by Francis Wall Oliver, ed., 1913
• Men of Invention and Industry, 1884, by Samuel Smiles (biographies of British engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs).
• The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, 1910, by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (includes collection of biographies of LGBT people)
• Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 1st-2nd century C.E.
  • Lives of Eminent Grammarians
  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• The Women of the American Revolution
• Thom's Irish Who's Who (1923) by publisher Alexander Thom & Co

Other

• Bohemians in Central Kansas by Francis Joseph Swehla, Vít Hanzliček and Joseph Satran (1915)
• Pioneer Czechs in Colfax County by Rose Rosicky et al. (1933–1934)

Reference works

• "Biography," in Domestic Encyclopædia, by A. F. M. Willich, London: (1802)
• "Biography," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Biography," by Edmund William Gosse in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Biography," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

See also

Please see the related sub-indices:

• Portal:Animal biographies
• Portal:Autobiographies
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