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• The Life of King Alfred, by John Asser, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Alfred the Great (Macmillan & co., 1869), by Thomas Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and Times of Alfred the Great: Being the Ford lectures for 1901, by Charles Plummer (Gutenberg ebook)

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• The will of King Alfred. (At the Clarendon Press, 1788), by King of England Alfred, Thomas Astle, Owen Manning, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Alfred the Great. (H. Altemus, 1900), by Jacob Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of King Alfred of England (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by Jacob Abbott, Thomas S. Sinclair, and Harper & Brothers (page images at Florida)
• The history of Alfred the Great (London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1851), by Jacob Abbott and Thomas Nelson (page images at Florida)

• Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts From the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, From 1835 to 1871 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1882), by Caroline Fox, ed. by Horace N. Pym
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• Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century, by James Richard Joy (Gutenberg text)
• Chapters From Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter (London: Selwyn and Blount, c1921), by Juliet M. Soskice (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines. (D. Appleton & company, 1854), by Mrs. S. C. Hall and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent. With the dissolved monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have been therein interred. As also, the death and burial of certain of the blood-royal, nobility and gentry of these kingdoms, emtombed in foreign nations ... (Printed by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767), by John Weever and William Tooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of notable men and women. (Nimmo, 1889), by Robert Cochrane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of England and Germany, 1936 (K. B. O'Ferrall?, 1937), by Kirk Bassett O'Ferrall and Mich.) St. Paul's Cathedral (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shopshire yeomanry cavalry; with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1900), by Nimrod, Thomas J. Rawlins, Joseph Grego, and Henry Thomas Alken (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration on the character and services of the late Duke of Wellington : delivered before the British residents of Boston and vicinity, and their American friends, at the Melodeon, Nov. 10, 1852 (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by G. P. R. James and Mass.) Melodeon (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old convict days (T. F. Unwin, 1899), by William Derricourt and Louis Becke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My life as soldier and sportsman (G. Richards, 1921), by J. Robson Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memories of old Friends : being extracts from the journals and letters of Caroline Fox, of Penjerrick, Cornwall, from 1835 to 1871 (J.B. Lippincott, 1882), by Caroline Fox and Horace N. Pym (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., of Halston, Shopshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, high sheriff for the counties of Salop and Merioneth and major of the North Shropshire yeomanry cavalry : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits (D. Appleton, 1903), by Nimrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the life and correspondence of John, Lord Teignmouth (Hatchard, 1843), by Charles John Shore Teignmouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters containing an account of the late revolution in France, and observations on the constitution, laws, manners, and institutitons of the English (Printed for J. Johnson, 1792), by Henry Frederic Groenvelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the warriors of the civil wars of France and England Warriors of the seventeenth century. (J. Murray, 1867), by Edward Cust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Englishmen of the nineteenth century: Wellington, Canning, Stephenson, Russell. Cobden, Peel, Shaftesbury, Palmersto, Gladstone, Disraeli, by James Richard Joy. (The Chautanqua Press, 1902), by James Richard Joy and Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A family biography, 1662 to 1908 : drawn chiefly from old letters (J. Nisbet, 1908), by Isabella Scott and Catherine Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Imaginative biography (Saunders and Otley, 1834), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences for my children. Private.. (Printed for the author by Charles Thurnam., 1836), by Catherine Mary Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kenneth Gorden Garnett, M.C., R.F.A. : 30th July 1892-22 August 1917. (Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1917), by R. S. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Profils anglais (J. Dent ;, 1911), by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homes and haunts of the wise and good (W. P. Hazard, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Record of a girlhood (R. Bentley and son, 1879), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in biography and criticism. (Gould and Lincoln, 1857), by Peter Bayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statesmen of the commonwealth of England : with a treatise on the popular progress in English history (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853), by John Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of the abbots of Wearmouth (F. Graham, 1973), by the Venerable Bede and Peter Wilcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wordsworth and the Coleridges : with other memories, literary and political (Folcroft Library Editions, 1978), by Ellis Yarnall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Men who have risen : a book for boys. (James Miller, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second funeral of Napoleon. (Estes and Lauriat, 1882), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morgan Brierley, a memoir : with a selection from his writings (J. Clegg, 1900), by Morgan Brierley and Helen Brierley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir James A. Picton : a biography (Isbister & Co. ;, 1891), by J. Allanson Picton (page images at HathiTrust)
• England's worthies under whom, all the civill and bloudy warres since anno 1642, to anno 1647, are related. : Wherein are described the severall battails, encounters, and assaults of cities, townes, and castles at severall times and places; so that the reader may behold the time, years, and event of every battle, skirmish and assault. Wherein London-apprentices had not the least share, as also , severall victories by sea, by the noble Admirall, Robert Earle of Warwick. (Rothwell, 1845), by John Vicars (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Maria Vernon Graham Havergal : with journals and letters (J. Nisbet, 1888), by Maria V. G. Havergal and J. Miriam Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pilgrimages to English shrines. (A. Hall, Virtue, & co., 1850), by Mrs. S. C. Hall, Roger Du Broff, and F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders upward and onward. Brief biographies of noble workers. (Isbister and Company, Limited, 1887), by Henry C. Ewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Paul Cuffee, a man of colour. (Printed by C. Crookes, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient fvnerall monvments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the ilands adiacent (Printed by Thomas Harper., 1631), by John Weever and Thomas Cecil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. A worke reuiuing the dead memory of the royall progenie, the nobilitie, gentrie, and communaltie, of these his Maiesties dominions. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historicall obseruations, annotations, and briefe notes, extracted out of approued authors ... Whereunto is prefixed a discourse of funerall monuments ... Composed by the studie and trauels of Iohn Weeuer. (London : Printed by Thomas Harper. 1631. And are to be sold by Laurence Sadler at the signe of the Golden Lion in little Britaine, [1631]), by John Weever and Thomas Cecil (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester : including the city of Worcester, and the boroughs of Bewdley, Droitwich, Dudley, Evesham, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Pershore, from the earliest times to the present day, 1213-1897, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members (Priv. Print. for the author by Jakeman and Carver, 1897), by W. R. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Supplementary annals of the church and parish of Almondbury. July, 1882, to June 1885. (Longmans, 1885), by Charles Augustus Hulbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of the church and parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire (Longmans, 1882), by Charles Augustus Hulbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographical sketches of Bath celebrities, ancient and modern : with some fragments of local history (Pitman ;, 1893), by Jerom Murch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of the late William Beckford: of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath, by Henry Venn Lansdown, ed. by Charlotte Lansdown (Gutenberg ebook)

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