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• The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellen Terry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
  • volume 1: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: illustrated HTML at Virginia
• Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving, by Bram Stoker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry Irving's Impressions of America: Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations, by Joseph Hatton (Gutenberg ebook)
• On the Stage--and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2): Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement, by Colley Cibber (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2): Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement, by Colley Cibber (Gutenberg ebook)

• Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mrs. Siddons, by Nina H. Kennard, ed. by John Henry Ingram (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ellen Terry and Her Sisters, by T. Edgar Pemberton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield, by Edward Robins (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Cosmopolitan Actor: His Adventures All Over the World (London: Bedford Pub. Co., ca. 1888), by J. B. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dan Leno (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Jay Hickory Wood
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of Mary Robinson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1895), by Mary Darby Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson, contrib. by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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• Records of Later Life (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1882), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company (New York: Russell and Russell, 1961), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Peridita, a romance in biography, (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1908), by Stanley Victor Makower (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3), by Dr. Doran, ed. by Robert William Lowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 2 of 3), by Dr. Doran, ed. by Robert William Lowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3), by Dr. Doran, ed. by Robert William Lowe (Gutenberg ebook)

• Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1891), by Fanny Kemble (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters (2 volumes; London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890), by Fanny Kemble
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The "Mind the Paint" Girl (comedy in 4 acts), by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML with music, and page images)

• The Position of Peggy Harper (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Arthur Wing Pinero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Two ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. One for the Lord Major of the city of London, and the Justices of the Peace for the city, and parts adjacent, to suppresse stage-playes, interludes, and common playes, and commit the actors to the gaole, to be tryed at the next sessions, to be punished as rogues. The other for setling of the major, and sheriffes, and establishing officers for the city of Chester. And also for indempnifying of the charter of the city. (Printed at London : by Robert Ibbitson, in Smithfield, neer the Queenes-head Tavern, 1647), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Case of Mrs. Clive, Submitted to the Publick (London: Printed for B. Dod, 1744), by Kitty Clive (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Case of Mrs. Clive, by Mrs. Clive, contrib. by Richard C. Frushell (Gutenberg ebook)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896), by Ford Madox Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life of William Blake, With Selections From His Poems and Other Writings (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Alexander Gilchrist, contrib. by William Blake
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• William Blake, by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Blake, Painter and Poet, by Richard Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1, by Harry Furniss (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2, by Harry Furniss (Gutenberg ebook)

• Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Jane M. Rabb (PDF files at Ohio State Press)

• The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography (London and New York: John Lane, 1908), by Alice M. Diehl
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Set Down in Malice: A Book of Reminiscences, by Gerald Cumberland (Gutenberg ebook)

• James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), by Frank Budgen (page images at Wisconsin)
• Forty Years of 'Spy', by Leslie Ward (Gutenberg ebook)

• G. F. Watts (London: Duckworth and Co., 1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, by Vern G. Swanson (illustrated HTML at artrenewal.org)
• Reminiscences of My Life (London: W. Heinemann, c1914), by Henry Holiday (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Memoir of Thomas Bewick (1862), by Thomas Bewick, contrib. by Jane Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Blake (from the Popular Library of Art series, ca. 1910), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Blake, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• G. F. Watts, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Memoir of Thomas Bewick: Written by himself, by Thomas Bewick (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Blake: A Critical Essay, by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aubrey Beardsley, by Robert Baldwin Ross, contrib. by Aymer Vallance (Gutenberg ebook)

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