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The Journals of Sarah and William Hazlitt, 1822-1831 (University of Buffalo Studies v24 #3; 1959), by Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt and William Hazlitt, ed. by Willard Hallam Bonner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- Beyond Holy Russia: The Life and Times of Stephen Graham (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), by Michael Hughes (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
- Contemporary Portraits (Third Series) (New York: The author, c1920), by Frank Harris
- My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Some Literary Eccentrics (London: A. Constable and Co., 1906), by John Fyvie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- World's Renowned Authors, and Their Grand Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose (Kansas City, MO: Topeka Book Co., 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Latest Contemporary Portraits (New York: Macaulay, c1927), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature (3 volumes; London: Edward Moxon, 1841), by Isaac Disraeli
- The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoirs for our Literary History (2 volumes; New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1868), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
- The Day Before Yesterday (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913), by Richard Middleton
- Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, in a Series of Letters From Various Parts of Europe, by William Beckford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Glimpses of Authors, by Caroline Ticknor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Books and Characters, French and English (c1922), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
- English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863), by Julia Kavanagh
- A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century (3 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1891-1908), by S. Austin Allibone
- A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors (2 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1902), by John Foster Kirk, contrib. by S. Austin Allibone
- Some Literary Eccentrics (London: A. Constable and Co., 1906), by John Fyvie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- This Shining Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1759-1797 (published under George Preedy pseudonym; New York and London: D. Appleton-Century, 1937), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Fielding, by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text)
- Johnsonian Miscellanies (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1897), by Samuel Johnson, ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill, contrib. by Samuel Johnson
- The Life of Savage, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
- Memoir, Letters, and a Selection From the Poems and Prose Writings of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (2 volumes; Boston: James R. Osgood and company, 1874), by Mrs. Barbauld, ed. by Grace A. Oliver (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Memoirs of Mary Robinson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1895), by Mary Darby Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson, contrib. by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (first edition; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Samuel Johnson, by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of Doctor Johnson: Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life (second edition; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1919), by S. C. Roberts, contrib. by James Boswell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Dr. Johnson & Fanny Burney, by Fanny Burney (HTML at Virginia)
- Hannah More (London: W. H. Allen, 1888), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Henry Fielding: A Memoir, Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records, by G. M. Godden (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by Henry Fielding (Gutenberg text)
- The Beautiful Lady Craven: The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven, Afterwards Margravine of Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the Holy Roman Empire (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Elizabeth Craven, ed. by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and Lewis Melville
- Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1890), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Written By Herself (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Elizabeth Craven
- Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek" (2 volumes; London: C. J. Skeet, 1859), ed. by Cyrus Redding (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London, New York, Mumbai: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Friends and Acquaintance (based on the 1854 edition, with annotated names; 2012), by P. G. Patmore, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Memoirs of William Hazlitt (based on the 1867 R. Bentley edition, with annotated names; 2012), by William Carew Hazlitt, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe, contrib. by William Hazlitt (HTML at vt.edu)
- Reminiscences of a Literary Life (based on the 1917 J. Murray edition, with annotated names; 2012), by Charles MacFarlane, ed. by John Tattersall and David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- A Diplomatic Whistleblower in the Victorian Era: The Life and Writings of E. C. Grenville-Murray (second edition; 2015), by Geoff Berridge (PDF at diplomacy.edu)
- A Life of Matthew G. Lewis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961), by Louis F. Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1878), by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke (HTML with commentary at lordbyron.org)
- The Life of Edward FitzGerald, Translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: C. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947), by Alfred McKinley Terhune (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leslie Stephen (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1937), by Desmond MacCarthy (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Something of Myself, For My Friends Known and Unknown (1937), by Rudyard Kipling (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- My Life and Times (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1926), by Jerome K. Jerome (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell, ed. by Eleanor L. Sewell
- The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt (new edition, revised by the author and his son; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1860), by Leigh Hunt and Thornton Leigh Hunt
- Early Reminiscences, 1834-1864 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1922), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
- Emily Brontë (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1883), by A. Mary F. Robinson
- Emily Brontë (second edition; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1883), by A. Mary F. Robinson (Gutenberg text and page images)
- The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies (London: Chatto and Windus, 1888), by Walter Besant (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Hannah More (London: W. H. Allen, 1888), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Harriet Martineau (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Florence Fenwick Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 volume edition, with memorials; Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1877), by Harriet Martineau, ed. by Maria Weston Chapman (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
- Leaflets From My Life: A Narrative Autobiography (second edition, 1888), by Mary Kirby
- The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1889), by Mrs. Julian Marshall, contrib. by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Life of Frances Power Cobbe (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Frances Power Cobbe
- The Life of George Borrow, by Herbert George Jenkins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Life of John Sterling, by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg text)
- Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal, by Her Sister, by Maria V. G. Havergal
- Mrs. Shelley (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1890), by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (Gutenberg text)
- Notable Women Authors of the Day (London: Maclaren and Co., 1906), by Helen C. Black (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts, Perhaps Worthy of Memory, In My Past Life (3 volumes; New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1885-1888), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Story of My Heart, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography (London et al: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Richard Jefferies, contrib. by Charles James Longman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Tennyson (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1903), by G. K. Chesterton and Richard Garnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud (Weston, VT: Countryman Press, c1937), by Frederic F. Van de Water, illust. by Bernadine Custer (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Blighted Life: A True Story (London: London Publishing Office, 1880), by Rosina Bulwer Lytton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Brontëana: The Rev. Patrick Bronte, A.B., His Collected Works and Life (Bingley: T. Harrison and Sons, 1898), by Patrick Brontë, ed. by J. Horsfall Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
- George Borrow and His Circle (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Clement King Shorter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1839), by M. G. Lewis, ed. by Mrs. Cornwell Baron-Wilson
- The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
- The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876), by George Otto Trevelyan, contrib. by Thomas Macaulay
- Memoir, Letters, and a Selection From the Poems and Prose Writings of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (2 volumes; Boston: James R. Osgood and company, 1874), by Mrs. Barbauld, ed. by Grace A. Oliver (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie, Selected and Arranged From Her Letters, Diaries, and Other Manuscripts (second edition; Norwich: Fletcher and Alexander, 1854), by Amelia Opie, ed. by C. L. Brightwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, by Joseph Cottle (Gutenberg text)
- William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902), by Elisabeth Luther Cary (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The Beautiful Lady Craven: The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven, Afterwards Margravine of Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the Holy Roman Empire (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Elizabeth Craven, ed. by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and Lewis Melville
- Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments, by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg text)
- Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
- Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
- Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion, by William Hazlitt (Gutenberg text)
- Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge (fourth edition, abridged; London: H.S. King and Co., 1875), by Sara Coleridge, ed. by Edith Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Written By Herself (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Elizabeth Craven
- Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1844), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
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