Contemporaries
Use as a topical subdivision under names of individual persons for works about other persons flourishing during the person's life, but not necessarily in close contact with the person.
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Narrower terms:- Friends and associates
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Contemporaries
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Contemporaries
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Contemporaries
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836 -- Contemporaries
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Contemporaries
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 -- Contemporaries
- Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Contemporaries
- Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907 -- Contemporaries
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Contemporaries
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Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends (third edition; London: J. Lane, reprinted 1923), by Constance Hill, illust. by Ellen G. Hill (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Art of Thomas Hardy (London: Elkin Matthews..., 1894), by Lionel Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), by Natalie Clifford Barney, ed. by John Spalding Gatton (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
- Doctor Johnson in Cambridge: Essays in Boswellian Imitation (London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1922), by S. C. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1896), by Clement King Shorter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Lady Layard's Journal, 1861-1912 (unedited transcript of the original manuscript), by Enid Layard (searchable HTML with commentary at browningguide.org)
- Robert Buchanan: Some Account of His Life, His Life's Work, and His Literary Friendships, by Harriett Jay (illustrated HTML in the UK)
- James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), by Frank Budgen (page images at Wisconsin)
- Dr. Johnson & Fanny Burney, by Fanny Burney (HTML at Virginia)
- The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc. (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by John William Polidori, ed. by William Michael Rossetti
- Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore (Creative Commons licensed online edition, c2008), by Paul Carr (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Fanny Burney at the Court of Queen Charlotte (London and New York: John Lane, 1912), by Constance Hill, illust. by Ellen G. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Autobiography and Correspondence Of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany; With Interesting Reminiscences of King George The Third and Queen Charlotte (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1861), by Mrs. Delany, ed. by Augusta Hall Llanover (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaucer's Official Life, by James R. Hulbert (Gutenberg text)
- Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (2 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1803), by William Godwin
- Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davison for Richard Phillips, 1804), by William Godwin
- Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (London: Duckworth and Co., c1924), by Ford Madox Ford (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Jane M. Rabb (PDF files at Ohio State Press)
- Maria Edgeworth and Her Circle in the Days of Buonaparte and Bourbon (London and New York: John Lane, 1910), by Constance Hill and Ellen G. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Making It Whole: A Victorian Circle and the Shape of Their World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Diana Postlethwaite (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Life of Mrs. Godolphin (London: W. Pickering, 1848), by John Evelyn, ed. by Samuel Wilberforce (multiple formats at Google)
- The Autobiography and Correspondence Of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany; With Interesting Reminiscences of King George The Third and Queen Charlotte (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1861), by Mrs. Delany, ed. by Augusta Hall Llanover (page images at HathiTrust)
- William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (based on the 1876 H. S. King edition, with annotated names; 2012), by C. Kegan Paul, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; With Recollections of the Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by Leigh Hunt
- Paul Hentzner's Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (based on the 1797 edition; Naunton fragment omitted; spelling modernized), by Paul Hentzner, ed. by Horace Walpole (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Joseph Fruscione (PDF at Ohio State)
- William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (based on the 1876 H. S. King edition, with annotated names; 2012), by C. Kegan Paul, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
- Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Joseph Fruscione (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Montaigne: His Personal Relations to Some of His Contemporaries, and His Literary Relations to Some Later Writers (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1908), by Grace Norton
- My Contemporaries in Fiction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1897), by David Christie Murray (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Secret Memoirs of Napoleon Buonaparte (second edition; London: H. Colburn et al., 1815), by Charles Doris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Private Anecdotes of Foreign Courts (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1827), by Catherine Hyde Gouvion Broglie Scolari and Louis François Joseph Bausset-Roquefort
- Medallic History of Napoleon: A Collection of All the Medals, Coins, and Jettons Related to His Actions and Reign (bound with supplement volumes; London: Printed for the editor, 1819-1821), by A. L. Millin, trans. by James Millingen
- A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France, From the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte on the First of March, 1815, Till the Restoration of Louis XVIII (1st edition; London: J. Murray, 1815), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena (8 parts in 4 volumes; London: H. Colburn and co., 1823), by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
- Volume I, Part 1: page images at Google
- Volume I, Part 2: page images at Google
- Volume II, Part 3: page images at Google
- Volume II, Part 4: page images at Google
- Volume III, Part 5: page images at Google
- Volume III, Part 6: page images at Google
- Volume IV, Part 7: page images at Google
- Volume IV, Part 8: page images at Google
- Derniers Momens de Napoléon (2 volumes in French; Paris and London: H. Colburn, 1825), by François Antonmarchi (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- The Last Days of Napoleon: Memoirs of the Last Two Years of Napoleon's Exile (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by François Antonmarchi
- Últimos Momentos de Napoleón: Conclusión del Diario de Santa-Helena (2 volumes (Diario t. 4-5) in Spanish; Barcelona: Imp. de Oliva, 1835), by François Antonmarchi, trans. by D. J. C. Pagés (both volumes bound together: page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, ed. by Ramsay Weston Phipps (Gutenberg text)
- Napoleon I, Kurz vor Seinem Tode (2 volumes in German; Leipzig: H. Schmidt und K. Günther, 1903), by François Antonmarchi, trans. by Oskar Marschall von Bieberstein (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Recollections of Napoleon (based on the 1844 first edition, with added illustrations), by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (London: Printed for Treuttel and Wurtz, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein (Gutenberg text)
- Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (New York: Collins and Co. and C. S. Van Winkle, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein
- 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
- Memoirs of Constant, First Valet de Chamber of the Emperor, on the Private Life of Napoleon, His Family and His Court (4 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1895), by Louis Constant Wairy, trans. by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin, contrib. by Imbert de Saint-Amand
- The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Oliver C. Colt (Gutenberg text)
- Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, by Louis Constant Wairy, trans. by Walter Clark (Gutenberg text)
- The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
- Contemporaries of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise (HTML at Indiana)
- The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth: Awdeley's "Fraternitye of Vacabondes" and Harman's "Caveat" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1907), by John Awdelay and Thomas Harman, ed. by Edward Viles and Frederick James Furnivall
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