African American Methodists -- Biography

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• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D., by Isaac Lane (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (1856), by William O. Blake
  • HTML at encyclopaedic.net
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century, by George Paston (Gutenberg text)

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (illustrated HTML at clivejames.com)

• An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google

• Dawnings of Genius: or, The Early Lives of Some Eminent Persons of the Last Century (London: Charles Knight and Co., 1841), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
• Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times, by Elbridge S. Brooks
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Red Book of Heroes (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by Arthur Wallis Mills (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Triumphs of Perseverance and Enterprise (with updated illustrations), by Thomas Cooper (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)

• Thirty More Famous Stories Retold (New York: American Book Company, 1905), by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF files at Newfound Press)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001), by Marilyn Booth (HTML at UC Press)

• The Dying Hours of Good and Bad Men Contrasted (1854), ed. by Daniel P. Kidder (PDF in Australia)
• Evangelical Biography: or, An Historical Account of the Lives and Deaths of the Most Eminent and Evangelical Authors or Preachers, Both British and Foreign, in the Several Denominations of Protestants, From the Beginning of the Reformation to the Present Time (new edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for W. Baynes, 1816), by Erasmus Middleton
  • Volume I (Wycliffe to Vergerio): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (Calvin to Donne): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Abbott to Claude): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (Hopkins to Maddock): multiple formats at Google
• A Fountain of Gardens (3 volumes (last in 2 parts), 1697-1701), by Jane Lead
  • Volume I: HTML at passtheword.org
  • Volume II: HTML at passtheword.org
  • Volume III, Part I: HTML at passtheword.org
  • Volume III, Part II: HTML at passtheword.org
• A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds, by Frank Boreham (Gutenberg text and page images)
• John Newton of Olney and St. Mary Woolnoth: An Autobiography and Narrative, Compiled Chiefly From His Diary and Other Unpublished Documents, by John Newton and Josiah Bull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives of the English Martyrs Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII, in 1885 and 1895 (reissue, 2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), ed. by Bede Camm
  • Volume I (Martyrs Under Henry VIII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Martyrs Under Queen Elizabeth): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Overcomers: Outstanding Christians Share the Secrets of Successful Living, by Russell Chandler (HTML at Evangelical Christian Library)
• Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911), by George Hodges (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

• Epitaphs for Country Churchyards, by Augustus J. C. Hare (illustrated HTML at Tripod)

• Industrial Biography: Iron-Workers and Tool-Makers, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text)
• Men of Invention and Industry, by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text)
• Men of Invention and Industry (based on the 1884 J. Murray edition, with added illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Makers of Modern Medicine (New York: Fordham University Press, 1907), by James J. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

• Portraits: A Book of Photographs, by Peter McWilliams (page images at mcwilliams.com)
• 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)

• Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (London: W. Heinemann, 1906), by Bram Stoker
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (revised and cheaper edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Bram Stoker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Dan Leno (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Jay Hickory Wood
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Star Danced (c1945), by Gertrude Lawrence (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• History of Addison County, Vermont; With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1886), ed. by H. P. Smith
  • illustrated HTML at Middlebury
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks, by A. L. Byron-Curtis
  • page images at MOA
  • HTML at threerivershms.com

• Frederick Douglass (1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Boston: For the Author, 1875), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Battle Creek, MI: For the author, 1878), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus (HTML at LOC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death (Battle Creek, MI.: Review and Herald Office, 1884), by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, and Frances W. Titus (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The author, 1850; main text as reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1991), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The Author, 1850), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at eserver.org
  • Gutenberg text

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