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• Diary notes of a visit to Walt Whitman and some of his friends in 1890 (Labour Press Ltd., 1898), by John Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Frohman presents; an autobiography. (C. Kendall & W. Sharp, 1935), by Daniel Frohman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems. (J.R. Osgood and company, 1871), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Argonauts of North Liberty (Houghton Mifflin, 1888), by Bret Harte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children of the border (Geo. W. Studley, Publisher, 1893), by J. H. Robinson and Geo. W. Studley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian stewardship. (Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1896), by Charles M. Sheldon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young deserter (Printed and published for the author by William Heughes ..., 1848), by S. W. Remington and William Heughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martin Merrivale : his X mark (Phillips, Sampson, 1854), by J. T. Trowbridge, J. C. Derby, and Sampson & Company Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbs swept up (Evans, Stoddard, 1870), by T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lecture on Emerson (s.n.], 1879), by George Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The amazing genius of O. Henry (s.n., 1919), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The king's jackal, (C. Scribner, 1911), by Richard Harding Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallegher and other stories (C. Scribner, 1911), by Richard Harding Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bar sinister : a tale of love and adventure (Hobart, 1897), by St. George Rathborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jessamine. A novel. (G. W. Carleton & co., 1873), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The kinship of souls : a narrative (Little, Brown, and Company, 1899), by Reuen Thomas, Amy M. Sacker, Mary E. Flavelle, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Married in mask : a novel (A.L. Burt, 1888), by Mansfield Tracy Walworth and A.L. Burt Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emerson (A. Williams, 1882), by Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Wolsey Pratt, and Frederic Alcott Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autocrat of the breakfast-table : every man his own Boswell (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories. (The De Vinne Press, 1890), by Frederic Battell Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• How she attended her own funeral (Star Printing Co., 1885), by T. Alcliffe Teske and Conn.) Star Printing Company (Hartford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mildred Marville (G.B. Reed, 1899), by George Fox Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drifting and resisting (R.A. Carver, Publisher, 1897), by A. B. Meservey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thistle sifters (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898), by Charles Russell Burke and Frank Tennyson Neely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's to blame? (Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1883), by Henry Fauntleroy and Southern Methodist Publishing House (page images at HathiTrust)
• My casual death. (United States Book Company, 1890), by J. H. Connelly and United States Book Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mind reader (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898), by L. M. Phillips and Frank Tennyson Neely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Born in the Whirlwind (Arena Publishing Company, 1893), by William Adams and Arena Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy detective. (Laird & Lee, 1889), by N. T. Oliver and Laird & Lee (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost epistles of the first and second centuries, and the lost records of the great international camp meeting. (Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1892), by J. O. A. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The grave between them (M.J. Ivers & Co., Publishers, 1891), by Clarence M. Boutelle and M.J. Ivers & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The biography of a bachelor : a novel (McGinty, Book and Job Printer, 1897), by Oliver J. Hohlbain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the banks : a romance of the Genesee (A.O. Bunnell, 1877), by Iron Point and A. O. Bunnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• None but the brave : a dashing military romance (Street & Smith, Publishers, 1894), by Robert Lee Tyler and Street and Smith Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mosses from an old manse (George P. Putnam ..., 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne and G.P. Putnam & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ryllis Darke : a realistic novel of life in New York (Minerva Publishing Company, 1889), by Stanley McKenna and Minerva Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nimble Ike and Jack the juggler. (J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1895), by Old Sleuth and J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• An artificial fate (M.J. Ivers & Co., Publishers, 1891), by Clarence M. Boutelle and M.J. Ivers & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls from the slums. (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1885), by Ernest Gilmore, Westcott & Thomson, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• The counterfeiters of the Cuyahoga : a Buckeye romance (Hurst & Co., Publishers, 1889), by Thomas Holcomb and Hurst & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passing show. (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899), by Richard Savage and Frank Tennyson Neely (page images at HathiTrust)
• The midnight passenger : a novel (The Home Publishing Company, 1900), by Richard Savage and N.Y.) Home Publishing Company (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nabob of Singapore (Street & Smith, 1895), by St. George Rathborne and Street and Smith Publications (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flight of Icarus; an idyl of Printing-house square. (F. T. Neely, 1898), by Jay Robin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl from Hong-Kong : a story of adventure under five suns (Street & Smith, 1899), by St. George Rathborne (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Stephen Crane collection : [a description of the George Matthew Adams collection] (Hanover, N.H. : [The College], 1948., 1948), by Dartmouth College. Library, Herbert Faulkner West, and George Matthew Adams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alphabetical register of all the authors actually living in Great-Britain, Ireland and in the united provinces of North-America, with a catalogue of their publications. (Printed for Frederic Nicolai, 1804), by Jeremias David Reuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliography of Henry David Thoreau (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967), by Francis H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Getting To Be Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Steinbrink (HTML at UC Press)
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849 (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1987), by Dwight Thomas and David Kelly Jackson (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)
• The Year 2000: A Critical Biography of Edward Bellamy (New York: Bookman Associates, c1958), by Sylvia E. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward Bellamy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944), by Arthur E. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1960), by Lillian B. Gilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Constance Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Richard Malcolm Johnston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Chapters From My Autobiography (as published in issues of the North American Review), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• A Daughter of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Hamlin Garland
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• George William Curtis (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Edward Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry James (London: Nisbet and Co., c1916), by Rebecca West (multiple formats at archive.org)
• James Russell Lowell: A Biography (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Horace Elisha Scudder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, contrib. by Florence Howe Hall
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Volume II: illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
• Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick (New York: Harper and Bros., 1872), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ed. by Mary E. Dewey (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), by Elizabeth Bisland, contrib. by Lafcadio Hearn
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  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
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• Life on the Mississippi (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883), by Mark Twain
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
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• Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Louisa May Alcott, ed. by Ednah Dow Cheney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883), by Julia Ward Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, by Marion Harland (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Mark Twain, by Archibald Henderson (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (2 volumes; 1924), by Mark Twain, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • Volume 2: HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (2 volumes; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and W. H. Channing
  • volume I: page images at MOA
  • volume II: page images at MOA
• My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1910), by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New England Girlhood, Outlined From Memory, by Lucy Larcom (Gutenberg text)
• The One I Knew the Best of All: A Memory of the Mind of a Child (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ordeal of Mark Twain (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)
• R. H. D.: Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
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• Recollections of Seventy Years by Mrs. John Farrar (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Story of a Literary Career (Holyoke, MA: E. Towne, 1905), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, contrib. by Ella Giles Ruddy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Hawthorne's Son: The Life and Literary Career of Julian Hawthorne (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1970), by Maurice Bassan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text)
• Through the Shadows With O. Henry (New York: H. K. Fly Co., c1921), by Al Jennings
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• Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), by Richard Harding Davis, ed. by Charles Belmont Davis (HTML at Virginia)
• Auto-Biography of Lemuel Sawyer, by Lemuel Sawyer (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals by Her Son (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ed. by Charles Edward Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, by Samuel M. Janney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Walden: or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Henry David Thoreau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The life and writings of William Law Symonds (Priv. print. for J. W. Symonds, 1908), by William Law Symonds and William Winter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A year of American travel; narrative of personal experience. (Book Club of California, 1960), by Jessie Benton Frémont and Plantin Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early life of John Howard Payne, with contemporary letters heretofore unpublished (Printed for members of the Bibliophile society, 1913), by Willis T. Hanson and Mass.) Bibliophile Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Crowding memories (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, his life, genius, and writings : a biographical sketch, to which are added personal recollections of his visits to England, extracts from unpublished letters, and miscellaneous characteristic records (London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1882., 1882), by Alexander Ireland and Marshall and Co Simpkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: his life, writings, and philosophy. (J. R. Osgood and company, 1881), by George Willis Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Walter Scott;, 1888), by Richard Garnett and John Parker Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson; a paper read before the New York genealogical and biographical society, December 14, 1833, with afterthoughts (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884), by William Hague (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Bret Harte, with some account of the California pioneers (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by Henry Childs Merwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896), by John T. Morse, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Alfred D. Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (Houghton Mifflin, 1925), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maud Howe Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irvingiana: a memorial of Washington Irving ... (C.B. Richardson, 1860), by Evert A. Duyckinck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Washington Irving (G.P. Putnam, 1863), by Pierre Munroe Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of James Russell Lowell (The Werner Company, 1895), by E. E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Russell Lowell and his friends (Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1902), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (M. King, 1882), by William Sloane Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain and the Happy Island (A.C. McClurg, 1913), by Elizabeth Wallace and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Mark Twain; reminiscences and criticisms (Harper & brothers, 1910), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and letters of Eliza Allen Starr (Printed at the Lakeside Press, 1905), by Eliza Allen Starr and James J. McGovern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marion Harland's autobiography; the story of a long life. (Harper & Brothers, 1910), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• James Russell Lowell; a biography... (Cambridge, 1901), by Horace E. Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Henry David Thoreau : including many essays hitherto unpublished, and some account of his family and friends (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by F. B. Sanborn, Bruce Rogers, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain; his life and work. (The Clemens publishing company, 1892), by William Montgomery Clemens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lifetime with Mark Twain; the memories of Katy Leary, for thirty years his faithful and devoted servant. (Harcourt,Brace, 1925), by Mary Lawton and Katy Leary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mark Twain and Hawaii (Priv. print., Lakeside Press, 1947), by Walter Francis Frear (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• R.H.D. : appreciations of Richard Harding Davis. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In quest of love; the life and death of Margaret Fuller. (Coward-McCann, 1957), by Faith Chipperfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the woods (The Bibliophile Society, 1909), by Henry David Thoreau, F. B. Sanborn, Helen Josephine Sanborn, Herbert Wendell Gleason, J. Winfred Spenceley, William Harry Warren Bicknell, William Fowler Hopson, William K. Bixby, Henry Howard Harper, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Mass.) Bibliophile Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoreau, the poet-naturalist : with memorial verses (Roberts Brothers, 1873), by William Ellery Channing, Press of John Wilson and Son, and Mass.) Roberts Brothers (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870 (Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Edward Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clyde Fitch and his letters (Little, Brown, 1924), by Clyde Fitch, Virginia Gerson, and Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe : the man (J. C. Winston, 1926), by Mary Elizabeth Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kate Field; a record (Little, Brown, 1899), by Lilian Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, W. H. Channing, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe, his life, letters, and opinions (AMS Press, 1965), by John Henry Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry D. Thoreau (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by F. B. Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of seventy years. (Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Mrs. John Farrar and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New England boyhood. (Scholarly Press, 1970), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (Houghton Mifflin, 1916), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, and Florence Howe Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of an actress, or, Eight years on the stage (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie and Henry Wright Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chapters from a life (Houghton, Mifflin, 1897), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of Washington Irving (Harper & brothers, 1893), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Alongside;" being notes suggested by "A New England boyhood" of Doctor Edward Everett Hale ... (Thomas Todd, 1900), by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe (Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington Irving. (Houghton, Mifflin cand company, 1881), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : with extracts from his journals and correspondence (Ticknor and Co., 1886), by Samuel Longfellow and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe. (Chilton Books, 1963), by Irwin Porges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney : late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, Va. : a minister in the Religious Society of Friends (Friends' Book Association, 1881), by Samuel M. Janney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous authors (men) (L.C. Page & company, 1906), by Edward Francis Harkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, sa vie et son œuvre : avec 3 phototypies hors texte. (A. Colin, 1913), by Marie Dugare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Stephen Crane collection : [a description of the George Matthew Adams collection] (Hanover, N.H. : [The College], 1948., 1948), by Dartmouth College. Library, Herbert Faulkner West, and George Matthew Adams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship (Harper & brothers, 1900), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar A. Poe (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1922), by John W. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My friend O. Henry (Folcroft Library Editions, 1971), by Seth Moyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Joel Chandler Harris (Constable, 1919), by Julia Collier Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and letters of Washington Irving (Putnam, 1869), by Pierre Munroe Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : with bibliographical and critical notes and his life, with extracts from his journals and correspondence (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, and Samuel Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• From my youth up : personal reminiscences : an autobiography (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909), by Margaret E. Sangster and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and poems of Edgar Allan Poe : a new memoir (W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1879), by Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Eugene Lemoine Didier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Bret Harte, with some account of the California pioneers (Houghton Mifflin, 1911), by Henry Childs Merwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The living authors of America. 1st ser. (Stringer and Townsend, 1850), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Russell Lowell : a biography (Houghton, Mifflin, 1901), by Horace Elisha Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• American bookmen : sketches, chiefly biographical, of certain writers of the nineteenth century (Dodd, Mead, 1902), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crayon miscellany (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1865), by Washington Irving and Dahlia Terrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erlebtes (K. Heinzen, 1864), by Karl Heinzen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Henry David Thoreau, including many essays hitherto unpublished and some account of his family and friends (Gale Research Co., 1968), by F. B. Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe, Annie Fields, and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden (Thomas Y. Crowell & co., 1910), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoreau, the poet-naturalist : with memorial verses (Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902), by William Ellery Channing, Bruce Rogers, F. B. Sanborn, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress), and Merrymount Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden (The Macmillan company, 1910), by Henry David Thoreau and Byron Johnson Rees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1882), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Joel Chandler Harris, from obscurity in boyhood to fame in early manhood (Publishing house Methodist Episcopal church, South, Smith & Lamar, agents, 1918), by Robert Lemuel Wiggins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of Washington Irving (Harper & Bros., 1893), by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Houghton, Mifflin company, 1889), by Lucy Larcom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden (C. E. Merrill co., 1910), by Henry David Thoreau and Joseph Milnor Dorey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sam Walter Foss : poet, librarian and friend to man (Public Library, 1922), by Mary S. Woodman and Mass. Public Library Somerville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Washington Irving. (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873), by Pierre Munroe Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Washington Irving. (Carlton & Lanahan;, 1870), by Charles Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the woods (Scott, Foresman and company, 1917), by Henry David Thoreau and James Cloyd Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
• American writers of to-day (Silver, Burdett and Company, 1895), by Henry C. Vedder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes (D. Lothrop and company, 1884), by Emma Elizabeth Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington Irving (Phillips & Hunt: Cincinnati, Walden & Stowe, 1883), by Daniel Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1908), by Ferris Greenslet, Bruce Rogers, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fanny Crosby's story of ninety-four years (Flemming H. Revell company, 1915), by Fanny Crosby and S. Trevena Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry D. Thoreau (Houghton, Mifflin, 1893), by F. B. Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life's romance, or, Recollections of seventy years' experiences in various parts of the world (Hubbard Brothers, 1888), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ordeal of Mark Twain (William Heinemann, 1922), by Van Wyck Brooks and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• George William Curtis. (Scholarly Press, 1969), by Edward Cary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Emerson, poet and thinker (G.P. Putnam's Sons :, 1904), by Elisabeth Luther Cary, Margaret Armstrong, and Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irving (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1896), by Henry T. Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain and the Happy Island (A.C. McClurg, 1913), by Elizabeth Wallace and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscent sketches by Aella Greene ... (Press of the Bryant print], 1902), by Aella Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) (Roberts Brothers, 1883), by Julia Ward Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs (W. Heinemann, 1893), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fanny Fern : a memorial volume containing her select writings and a memoir (Carleton, 1989), by Fanny Fern and James Parton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of seventy years. (Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of Major O'Regan. (T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1856), by H. H. Brackenridge, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, and Pa.) T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (B. Tauchnitz, 1883), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crayon miscellany (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life on the Mississippi (James R. Osgood, 1883), by Mark Twain, James S. Tippett, and Zoe C. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• From my youth up : personal reminiscences (F.H. Revell, 1909), by Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe; a memorial volume (Folcroft Library Editions, 1973), by Sara Sigourney Rice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Crayon miscellany (Lippincott, 1872), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss ... (A. D. F. Randolph & Company, 1882), by E. Prentiss and George Lewis Prentiss (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Cullen Bryant (Houghton Mifflin, 1890), by John Bigelow and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
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• From my youth up personal reminiscences (F.H. Revell, 1909), by Margaret E. Sangster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life on the Mississippi (Harper & Brothers, 1911), by Mark Twain and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The life of Edgar Allan Poe. (Chatto & Windus, 1878), by William Fearing Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant, his wife (William Blackwood, 1891), by Mrs. Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain, his life and work : a biographical sketch (F. Tennyson Neely, 1894), by William Montgomery Clemens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and letters of Bayard Taylor (Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Bayard Taylor, Horace Elisha Scudder, and Marie Hansen Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• An epistle to posterity; being rambling recollections of many years of my life (Harper and Brothers, 1899), by M. E. W. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington Irving : biography and selections from his writings (C.M. Parker, 1900), by Thomas Arkle Clark and Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. : A medley in prose and verse. (George W. Harlan & Co., publishers, 1882), by Richard Henry Stoddard and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and friends (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), by Annie Fields (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife : a biography (Houghton Mifflin ;, 1884), by Julian Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Washington Irving, his life and work. (Putnam, 1903), by George Haven Putnam, G. H. P., and G. H. P. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain's Autobiography (P.F. Collier, 1925), by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the woods (Houghton Mifflin ;, 1893), by Henry David Thoreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam : George Ripley, LL.D. (s.n., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mark Twain's autobiography, with an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. (G. Wells, 1924), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walden. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), by Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Whitman, and Bradford Torrey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1896), by John T. Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writers of Knickerbocker New York, by Hamilton Wright Mabie, illust. by Walworth Stilson (Gutenberg ebook)
• A memoir of Miss Hannah Adams, by Hannah Adams and Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
• Auf dem Mississippi; Nach dem fernen Westen (in German), by Mark Twain, illust. by Albert B. Richter and H. Schrödter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry James at Work, by Theodora Bosanquet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships: Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields, by M. A. De Wolfe Howe and Annie Fields (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2, by Horace Elisha Scudder (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2, by Horace Elisha Scudder (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary, by Daniel Dulany Addison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nathaniel Parker Willis, by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry D. Thoreau, by F. B. Sanborn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Elijah Kellogg, the Man and His Work: Chapters from His Life and Selections from His Writings, ed. by Wilmot Brookings Mitchell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life, by Marion Harland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Luotsina Mississippi-joella: Humoristinen kertomus (in Finnish), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Russell Lowell and His Friends, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books, by E. F. Harkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Peter Parley's Own Story: From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley"), by Samuel G. Goodrich (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20), by Henry David Thoreau (Gutenberg ebook)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, and Florence Howe Hall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals, by Louisa May Alcott, ed. by Ednah Dow Cheney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by E. E. Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Henry James, by Rebecca West (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers, by Henry Childs Merwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Home Life of Poe, by Susan Archer Talley Weiss (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reminiscences, 1819-1899, by Julia Ward Howe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli), by Julia Ward Howe (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Son of the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson: Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself., by George Thompson (Gutenberg ebook)
• James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work (Gutenberg ebook)
• Washington Irving, by Henry Walcott Boynton (Gutenberg ebook)
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