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• The Prose of Romanticism (2017), ed. by Yoon Sun Lee (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Jacket2 (successor to Jacket, 2011-) (full serial archives)
• Jacket (literary magazine, 1997-2010) (full serial archives)

• Jacket2 (successor to Jacket, 2011-) (full serial archives)
• Jacket (literary magazine, 1997-2010) (full serial archives)

• Whole Lives: Shapers of Modern Biography (originally published 1989; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Reed Whittemore (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c2023), ed. by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Zhang, and Ping Yao (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001), by Marilyn Booth (HTML at UC Press)
• Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), ed. by Joan Judge and Hu Ying (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Françoise Lionnet (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Strindberg and Autobiography (London: Ubiquity Press and Norvik Press, 2013), by Michael Robinson (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
• Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb's Art of Autobiography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984), by Gerald Monsman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rousseau's Occasional Autobiographies (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Susan K. Jackson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1994), by Elizabeth Grubgeld (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (25th anniversary edition; New York et al.: P. Lang, 2020), by A. Robert Lee
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at peterlang.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c2023), ed. by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Zhang, and Ping Yao (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Auto/Biography (British Sociological Association journal; volumes online cover 2004-2006) (partial serial archives)

• Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Françoise Lionnet (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Indian Captivities, or, Life in the Wigwam: Being True Narratives of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away by the Indians, From the Frontier Settlements of The United States, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1853), ed. by Samuel G. Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life among the Indians: or, The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache & Mohave Indians (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lindley Bynum, Lorenzo D. Oatman, and Olive Ann Oatman, illust. by Mallette Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians (New York: Pub. for the author by Carlton and Porter, 1858), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lorenzo D. Oatman and Olive Ann Oatman (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, a Native of Central Africa (Aberdeen, Scotland: Published for the author, 1846), by Selim Aga (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York and London: NYU Press, c2009), by Edlie L. Wong (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (extracted from the American Historical Review; Washington: American Historical Association, 1925), by Omar ibn Said, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Before the War, and After the Union: An Autobiography (Boston: Gold Mind, c1929), by Sam Aleckson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
• Africa Speaks: West African University Students Write About Their Lives, ed. by Patricia Stoll (illustrated HTML at patstoll.org)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The World's Best Essays, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Imperial edition, 10 volumes; St. Louis: F. P. Kaiser, 1900), ed. by David J. Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essay and General Literature Index (partial serial archives)

• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Aventures et Voyages (in French; Nice: Typ. S. C. Cauvin, 1876), by P. Seligmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Hole Book (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1908), by Peter Newell (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)

• No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96 (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, c1997), by Kenneth Goldsmith (HTML here at Penn)
• The Prophet (without illustrations; 1923), by Kahlil Gibran (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Prophet (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), by Kahlil Gibran
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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