Christian biography -- Dictionaries

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• A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines (4 volumes; London: John Murray, 1877-1887), ed. by William Smith and Henry Wace (PDF files at Stanford)
• A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies (based on the 1911 John Murray edition), ed. by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy (multiple formats at CCEL)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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• John Newton of Olney and St. Mary Woolnoth: An Autobiography and Narrative, Compiled Chiefly From His Diary and Other Unpublished Documents, by John Newton and Josiah Bull (multiple formats at archive.org)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)

• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, by John Bunyan (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal, by Her Sister, by Maria V. G. Havergal
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Cassiodorus (postprint, 1995), by James Joseph O'Donnell (HTML at Georgetown)

• The Life of the Party: A True Story of Teenage Alcoholism, by Becky Tirabassi and Gregg Lewis (HTML at Evangelical Christian Library)

• 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

• Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 (online edition, 2008), by Neil Jeffares (PDF files with commentary at pastellists.com)

• Australian Dictionary of Biography (online edition) (HTML in Australia)

• The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature (with other Bloomsbury references), ed. by Marion Wynne-Davies (searchable JavaScript-dependent HTML at bloomsbury.com)

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (in English and French) (searchable HTML at biographi.ca)

• Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 (1914-1915 only volume known; New York: American Commonwealth Co., c1914), ed. by John W. Leonard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Magyar Írók Névtára;: Életrajzi és Kónyvészeti Adatok gyüjteménye (in Hungarian; Pozsonyban: Nirschy Ferenc könyunyomdája Pozsonyban, 1876), ed. by Moenich Károly and Vutkovich Sándor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (electronic edition, c2009), ed. by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, and Loren N. Horton (searchable HTML at Iowa)

• A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, Eminent Persons Connected With Ireland By Office or By Their Writings (Dublin: M. H. Gill, 1878), by Alfred Webb (HTML at booksulster.com)

• A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (electronic edition) (HTML in New Zealand)

• Hvem er Hvem? Haandbok Over Samtidige Norske Maens og Kvinder (in Norwegian; Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: With the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Bibliographical Illustrations, Etc. Etc. (London: H. Johnson; et al., 1839), by C. H. Timperley
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (partial serial archives)

• Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 (1914-1915 only volume known; New York: American Commonwealth Co., c1914), ed. by John W. Leonard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Churchman's Theological Dictionary (London: J. W. Parker, 1845), by Robert Eden (multiple formats at Google)