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• Women in Science: A Selection of 16 Significant Contributors (San Diego: San Diego Supercomputer Center, 1997) (illustrated HTML and PDF at sdsc.edu)

• Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville; With Selections From Her Correspondence (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Mary Somerville, contrib. by Martha Charters Somerville (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science, by Elga Ruth Wasserman (page images at NAP)

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

• Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries (second edition, 2001), by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (page images at NAP)

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))

• Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville; With Selections From Her Correspondence (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1874), by Mary Somerville, contrib. by Martha Charters Somerville (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women Worth Emulating (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1877), by Clara Lucas Balfour
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Climbing the Ladder: An Update on the Status of Doctoral Women Scientists and Engineers, by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel (page images at NAP)
• To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in U.S. Science and Engineering (2006), by National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Guide to Recruiting and Advancing Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Women Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry: Why So Few?, by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel (page images at NAP)

• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text
• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text
• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science, by Elga Ruth Wasserman (page images at NAP)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Archimedes, by Chris Rorres (illustrated HTML at NYU)
• William Oughtred, A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics, by Florian Cajori (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at Cornell)

• Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century, by Alexander Macfarlane
  • frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at Cornell
  • Gutenberg PDF and zipped LaTeX
• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Passages From the Life of a Philosopher (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), by Charles Babbage (PDF at djm.cc)

• Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood (New York: The Century Co., 1895), by S. V. Kovalevskaia, trans. by Isabel Florence Hapgood and Annie Margaret Clive Bayley, contrib. by Anne Charlotte Leffler and Lily Wolffsohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rachel Carson: Pen Against Poison (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Bruce Odessey (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)

• The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Robert Sinsheimer (HTML at UC Press)

• John James Audubon, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)

• Last Leaves From Dunk Island, by E. J. Banfield
  • HTML in Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• A Woman Tenderfoot (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1900), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• A Woman Tenderfoot (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1900), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture, by Robert M. Young (HTML in the UK)
• Eliza Brightwen, Naturalist and Philanthropist: An Autobiography (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1909), by Mrs. Brightwen, ed. by W. H. Chesson, contrib. by Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, by Thomas Henry Huxley and Leonard Huxley
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text

• The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (as published in "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin"), by Charles Darwin, ed. by Francis Darwin (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (two-volume edition), by Charles Darwin, ed. by Francis Darwin
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (three-volume edition; with other autobiographical material), by Charles Darwin, ed. by Francis Darwin (illustraed HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online)
• The Life and Letters of George John Romanes, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. (London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1898), by Ethel Duncan Romanes and George John Romanes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During His Residence in Lichfield: With Anecdotes of His Friends, and Criticisms on his Writings (London: J. Johnson, 1804), by Anna Seward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of My Heart, by Richard Jefferies (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography (London et al: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Richard Jefferies, contrib. by Charles James Longman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Boyhood, by John Burroughs (Gutenberg text)

• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry Stephens Salt
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir
  • HTML at Sierra Club
  • illustrated HTML at LOC
• Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, by John Muir
  • illustrated HTML at Sierra Club
  • HTML and page images at LOC
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)

• Bacon (London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1888), by R. W. Church
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• Cosmic Heretics: A Personal History of Attempts to Establish and Resist Theories of Quantavolution and Catastrophe in the Natural and Human Sciences, 1962-1983, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• In War and Peace: My Life in Science and Technology, by H. Guyford Stever (page images at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.