Actresses -- Biography
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An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
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Filed under: Actresses- Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)
- The "Mind the Paint" Girl (comedy in 4 acts), by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML with music, and page images)
- The Half Sisters: A Tale (cheap edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
- The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
- Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
- Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
- An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
- Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
- Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)
- Talking Screen (full serial archives)
- Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)
- Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
- A Star Danced (author died in 1952; c1945), by Gertrude Lawrence (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Men, Marriage and Me (New York: Macauley Co., 1930), by Peggy Hopkins Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art of the Theatre (London: G. Bles, ca. 1924), by Sarah Bernhardt, trans. by H. J. Stenning, contrib. by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder (New York; The Dunlap society, 1897), by Clara Fisher, ed. by Douglas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Life of Charlotte Cushman (New York et al.: Brentano's, c1894), by W. T. Price (multiple formats at Google)
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (London: W. Heinemann, 1906), by Bram Stoker
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (revised and cheaper edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Bram Stoker
- A Society Clown: Reminiscences, by George Grossmith (Gutenberg text)
- Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)
- A Cosmopolitan Actor: His Adventures All Over the World (London: Bedford Pub. Co., ca. 1888), by J. B. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dan Leno (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Jay Hickory Wood
- 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)
- My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)
- The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons
- The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
- Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellen Terry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
- A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (16 volumes; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, c1973-1993), by Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans (page images at HathiTrust)
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne
- Diary of a Daly Débutante: Being Passages From the Journal of A member of Augustin Daly's Famous Company of Players (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Dora Knowlton Ranous
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London: Pluto Press, c2016), by Gerald Horne
- Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Roscius (London: Onwhyn, ca. 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), ed. by Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
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