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• Famous Men of the Middle Ages, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Simon Molitor und die Wiener Gitarristik (um 1800) (in German; Vienna: A. Goll, ca. 1920), by Josef Zuth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden (Gutenberg text)

• Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero, by Murray Newton Rothbard (HTML and PDF at mises.org)

• The Autobiography of a Working Woman (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Adelheid Popp, trans. by E. C. Harvey, contrib. by August Bebel and James Ramsay MacDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Jugendgeschichte Einer Arbeiterin (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1909), by Adelheid Popp, contrib. by August Bebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Autobiography of a Working Woman (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Adelheid Popp, trans. by E. C. Harvey, contrib. by August Bebel and James Ramsay MacDonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Jugendgeschichte Einer Arbeiterin (in German; Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1909), by Adelheid Popp, contrib. by August Bebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• From Plotzk to Boston (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co., 1899), by Mary Antin, contrib. by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Promised Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Mary Antin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift (partial serial archives)

• Annales des Professeurs des Académies et Universités Alsaciennes, 1523-1871 (in French; Nancy: Impr. Berger-Levrault et cie, 1892), by Oscar Berger-Levrault
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogentsous-Coucy, by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by C. C. Swinton Bland (HTML at Fordham)

• My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI and UNC)
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes, by Peter Abelard, trans. by Henry Adams Bellows (HTML at Fordham)

• Autobiography of Madame Guyon, by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse, by Jill Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon (PDF at jill-hamilton.com)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Laperouse, by Ernest Scott
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI and UNC)
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (2 volumes; London and New York: The Alexandrian Society, 1922), by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, trans. by A. R. Allinson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The History of Napoleon Buonaparte, by J. G. Lockhart (Gutenberg text)

• Incidents (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Roland Barthes, trans. by Richard Howard (HTML at UC Press)

• The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot, Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army (2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Arthur John Butler
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Oliver C. Colt (Gutenberg text)

• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• Rashi, by Maurice Liber, trans. by Adele Szold Seltzer (Gutenberg text)

• Jewish Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Lucette Valensi and Nathan Wachtel, trans. by Barbara Harshav (HTML at UC Press)

• A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, During the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France (London: Printed by Baylis, 1798), by M. Cléry, trans. by Robert Charles Dallas (page images at Google)

• Incidents (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Roland Barthes, trans. by Richard Howard (HTML at UC Press)

• The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Nina Rattner Gelbart (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1903), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, trans. by Lionel Strachey (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Baron d'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France, by Max Pearson Cushing (Gutenberg text)
• A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson, by Edouard Le Roy, trans. by Vincent Benson (Gutenberg text)
• Pascal (Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1902), by Emile Boutroux, trans. by Ellen Margaret Creak (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Alumni Etonenses: or, A Catalogue of the Provosts and Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, From the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, With an Account of Their Lives and Preferments (Birmingham: Printed by T. Pearson, 1797), by Thomas Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
• Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Great Englishmen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911), by M. B. Synge (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• Memoirs of Eminent Etonians; With Notices of the Early History of Eton College. (London: R. Bentley, 1850), by Edward Shepherd Creasy (multiple formats at Google)
• Stories of Old Families (Edinburgh and London: W. and R. Chambers, 1878), by William Chambers
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF (without illustrations) at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Famous Men of Greece, by John H. Haaren and Addison B. Poland (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)

• 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)

• The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, by Giacomo Casanova, trans. by Arthur Machen, contrib. by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

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