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• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Juvenile fiction
• Recluses
• Stanhope, Hester, Lady, 1776-1839

• Cranks (Persons)
• Eccentricities
• Fixed ideas

• Unknown Immortals in the Northern City of Success (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917), by Herbert Moore Pim
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Gallery of Eccentrics (c1928), by Morris Bishop (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Think of the Earth (c1936), by Bertram Brooker (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Hadrian the Seventh (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1925), by Frederick Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wickford Point (c1939), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope (London: J. Murray, 1914), by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Cleveland, contrib. by Hester Stanhope and Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Dutton, 1903), by W. H. Davenport Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (ninth edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by W. H. Davenport Adams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs, Narrated by Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1846), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story (read by the author in its entirety; c2004), by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (MP3 files (select this title from the "choose a book" menu) at pinkwater.com)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

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• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characters of Virtues and Vices, by Joseph Hall (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wonders of the Little World: or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind (new edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson et al., 1806), by Nathaniel Wanley, ed. by William Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine (full serial archives)

• En Route (translation in this edition credited to "W. Fleming"), by J.-K. Huysmans, trans. by C. Kegan Paul (Gutenberg text)

• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Cartoon All-Stars To the Rescue: Joint Hearing Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on the Judiciary, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, on an Entertaining Way of Enlightening Children About the Dangers of Substance Abuse, April 19, 1990 (Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Joycean Monologue (revised edition, with added articles; 2010), by Constantin-George Sandulescu (PDF with commentary in Romania)
• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1994), by Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (prepublication version, 2012), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at MLA Commons)
• The Mark and the Knowledge: Social Stigma in Classic American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Marjorie Pryse (PDF at Ohio State)
• Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature (New York and London: New York University Press, c1992), by Bernard J. Paris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century (1891), ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (London: L. and V. Woolf, at the Hogarth Press, 1924), by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)

• Wow Comics (partial serial archives)

• Elements of Phrenology (1834 American edition), by George Combe (HTML at Plattsburgh)
• The Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim: Founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular; and Indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind (second edition; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by J. G. Spurzheim, contrib. by F. J. Gall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practical Phrenologist, and Recorder and Delineator of the Character and Talents (Boston: O. S. Fowler, c1869), by O. S. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology, by O. S. Fowler (page images at MOA)
• A System of Phrenology (fifth edition; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1853), by George Combe (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Loma, a Citizen of Venus (St. Paul, MN: Windsor and Lewis Pub. Co., 1897), by William Windsor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Scientific Basis of Education, by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
• Crania Americana: or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species (with an appendix by Combe; Philadelphia: J. Dobson; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1839), by Samuel George Morton, contrib. by George Combe, illust. by John Collins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mind as a Cause and Cure of Disease, Presented From a Medical, Scientific and Religious Point of View (Chicago: The author, 1914), by Eli Beers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals, by James W. Redfield (page images at MOA)
• Essays on Physiognomy (third edition, with additional physiognomonical rules, and a life of the author; London: B. Blake, 1840), by Johann Caspar Lavater, trans. by Thomas Holcroft, contrib. by Georg Gessner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim: Founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular; and Indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind (second edition; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by J. G. Spurzheim, contrib. by F. J. Gall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process (originally published 1971), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)

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