Biography & Autobiography

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka

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Alexandre Dumas


The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…

Mrs. Shelley

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Lucy Madox Rossetti


"I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving an…

Shakespeare: Life and Work

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John Munro


William Shakespeare: actor, poet, playwright. He is often called England's greatest writer, the Bard of Avon, a national treasure. But who w…

The Story of John Wesley Told to Boys and Girls

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Marianne Kirlew


Marianne Kirlew tells the story of John Wesley, English revivalist and founder of Methodism, in short chapters in simple language and an eng…

My Chinese Marriage

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Mae Franking


Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…

Life of Edward the Black Prince

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Louise Creighton


Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England. He commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Créc…

Some Famous Women

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Louise Creighton


Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother…

Claimants to Royalty

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John Henry Ingram


A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

Från barnaår till silfverhår. Första afdelningen

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Anders Ramsay


"Från barnaår till silfverhår" (From childyears to silverhairs) by Anders Ramsay (1832-1910) is one of the most …

A Day With Great Poets

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May Gillington Byron


Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us …

Women of Achievement

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley


This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important w…

The Life of Charles G. Finney

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Aaron Merritt Hills


A.M. Hills, theologian and preacher in the Wesleyan holiness tradition, gives us a detailed biography of Charles G. Finney, one of the most …

A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4

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Justin Mccarthy


In Volume IV of this series on the Hanoverian kings, Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Huntly McCarthy, both Liberal Irish MPs., bring on …

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

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James Headlam-Morley


"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismar…

A Japanese Boy

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Shigemi Shiukichi


The life of a Japanese boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's, told simply and beautifully. This isn't about civilizations and governments,…

The Women Who Make Our Novels

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Grant M. Overton


”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely un…

Maria Theresa

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James Franck Bright


By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…

Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England

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Charles H. Firth


The Life of Cromwell is in part based on an article contributed by the author to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1888, but embodies …

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