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• 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)
• Essays by a series of letters, (New York, R. Carter & brothers, 1869), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche Selbstbekenntnisse : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Selbstbiographie von der Mystik bis zum Pietismus / von Werner Mahrholz. (Berlin : Furche, 1919), by Werner Mahrholz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays in a series of letters. (London, H. G. Bohn, 1849), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters. (London, Bohn, 1861), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, in a series of letters. (London, Bell & Daldy, 1865), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A half century among the Siamese and the Lao [electronic resource] : an autobiography / (New York ; Toronto : F.H. Revell, c1912), by Daniel McGilvary and Cornelius Beach Bradley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft [electronic resource] : literary industries. (San Francisco : History Co., 1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great autobiographies : types and problems of manhood and womanhood / (New York : B.W.Huebsch, 1908), by Edward Howard Griggs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays, in a series of letters-- / (Boston : James Loring, 1833), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters to a friend on ... I ... A man's writing memoirs of himself. II. Decision of character. III. The application of the epithet romantic ... IV. Some of the causes by which evangelical religion has been rendered less acceptable to persons of cultivated taste ... / (Hartford : Lincoln and Gleason, 1807), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters, on the following subjects : On a man's writing memoirs of himself. II. On decision of character. III. On the application of the epithet romantic. IV. On some of the causes by which evangelical religion has been rendered less acceptable to persons of cultivated taste / (London : G. Bell, 1894), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters / (London : H. G. Bohn, 1844), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected list of autobiographies. (Newark, University of Delaware, 1942), by Martha comp Morris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays in a series of letters on the following subjects : On a man's writing memoirs of himself ; On decision of characer ; On the application of the epithet romantic ; On some of the causes by which evangelical religion has been rendered less acceptable to persons of cultivated taste / (Andover : M. Newman, 1826), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters. (London, H.G. Bohn, 1854), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of personal documents in psychological science, prepared for the Committee on Appraisal of Research, (New York : Social Science Research Council, [1951]), by Gordon W. Allport and Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Appraisal of Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die moderne selbstbiographie als historische quelle. Eine untersuchung (Marburg, N.G. Elwert, 1903), by Hans Glagau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays in a series of letters, : on the following subjects: ... / (Oxford : Printed by J. Bartlett; for Gale and Curtis ... London; and John Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh, 1811), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Martin Van Buren / (Washington : Govt. Print Off., 1920), by Martin Van Buren and John Clement Fitzpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and natural history notes of Ewen Kennedy; (Edinburgh, Priv. printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1913), by Ewen Kennedy and May Kennedy MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 / (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters / (New York : Robert Carter & Brothers, 1850), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln, his autobiographical writings now brought together for the first time and prefaced with an introductory comment (New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1948), by Abraham Lincoln, John Coulter, and Paul M. Angle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche Selbstbekenntnisse : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Selbstbiographie von der Mystik bis zum Pietismus / (Berlin : Furche, 1919), by Werner Mahrholz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr : nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern / (Berlin : A. Hofmann, [1819]), by E. T. A. Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Darwin : his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters / (London : John Murray, 1892), by Charles Darwin and Francis Darwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Munchausen; being a true account of some of the recent adventures beyond the Styx of the late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday edition of the Gehenna Gazette by its special interviewer the late Mr. Ananias formerly of Jerusalem and now first transcribed from the columns of that journal (Boston, Noyes, Platt & company, 1901), by John Kendrick Bangs, Geo. H. Walker & Co. ltg pop, Riggs Printing & Publishing Company. prt, and Platt & Company. pbl Noyes, illust. by Peter Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ausgewählte selbstbiographien aus dem 15. bis 18. jahrhundert, (Leipzig, J. J. Weber, 1897), by Christian Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• List of entertaining autobiographies. ([Trenton] The Free Public Library, [1910]), by N.J.) Trenton Free Public Library (Trenton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters : on the following subjects: I. On a man's writing memoirs of himself. II. On decision of character. III. On the application of the epithet romantic. IV. On some of the causes by which evangelical religion has been rendered less acceptable to persons of cultivated taste / (London : Bell & Daldy, 1867), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in a series of letters. (London, H. G. Bohn, 1856), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über die antike poetische Autobiographie / (München : C. Wolf, 1919), by Lorenz Niedermeier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The use of personal documents in psychological science, (New York : Social Science Research Council, [1947]), by Gordon W. Allport and Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Appraisal of Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of American biography, (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1932), by Dana Kinsman Merrill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English autobiography; its emergence, materials, and form. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1954), by Wayne Shumaker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wspomnienia podchorazego z czasow W. Ks. Konstantego. (Warszawa, 1900), by Ignacy A. Komorowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über die anfänge der selbstbiographie und ihre entwicklung im mittelalter ... (Erlangen, Buchdruckerei von F. Junge (Junge & Sohn), 1893), by Friedrich von Bezold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half-hours with the best letter-writers and autobiographers. Forming a collection of memoirs and anecdotes of eminent persons. (London, New York, Routledge and sons, 1867-68), ed. by Charles Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs and poetical remains of the late Jane Taylor: with extracts from her correspondence. (Philadelphia, J.J. Woodward, 1827), by Jane Taylor and Isaac Taylor, ed. by Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doctor looks at biography; psychological studies of life and letters, (New York, George H. Doran company, [c1925]), by Joseph Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der englishchen autobiographie von Chaucer bis Milton ... ([Weimar, G. Uschmann; (etc., etc.), 1925]), by Dorothea Hendrichs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De hypomnematis Graecis / (Berolini : Typis Nauckianis, 1842), by Ernst Rudolf Anastasius Köpke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. (London : John Murray, 1888), by Charles Darwin and Francis Darwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Lebenslauf; Aufzeichnungen, Erinnerungen und Bekenntnisse. (Stuttgart, J. G. Cotta'schen, 1890), by Julius Fröbel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays, in a series of letters, on the following subjects : I. On a man's writing memoirs of himself : II. On decision of character : III. On the application of the epithet romantic : IV. On some of the causes by which evangelical religion has been rendered less acceptable to persons of cultivated taste. (London ; New York : G. Bell & Sons, 1889), by John Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboys north and south, (New York, London, C. Scribner's sons, 1936), by Will James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A poetics of women's autobiography : marginality and the fictions of self-representation / (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987), by Sidonie Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faithful transgressions in the American West : six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / (Logan : Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (New York : A.A. Knopf, 1923), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The curious art of autobiography, from Benvenuto Cellini to Rudyard Kipling. (New York, Philosophical Library, [1956]), by Herbert Newton Wethered (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early modern autobiography : theories, genres, practices / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Philippa Kelly, Lloyd Davis, and Ronald Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiographies, memoirs, letters and journals in Case library, (Cleveland, 1910), by Cleveland Case library and Elizabeth H. Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passages from the diary of a late physician / (Edinburgh : William Blackwood & Sons ; London : T. Cadell, 1838), by Samuel Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• An octogenarian literary life. The autobiography of James Patrick O'Flanagan ... (Cork : Guy & Co., Limited, 1896), by J. Roderick O'Flanagan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman autobiography, particularly Augustine's Confessions, ([New York] The De Vinne press, 1901), by Andrew Fleming West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die journale der frühen quäker. Zweiter beitrag zur geschichte des modernen romans in England. (Berlin, Mayer & Müller, g.m.b.h., 1921), by Emma Danielowski and Emma Danielowski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English biography before 1700, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1930), by Donald A. Stauffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life: My Questionings. (Wellesley, Mass. : Elizabeth M. F. Denton, 1899), by Elizabeth M. Foote Denton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of personal documents in psychological science, (New York, Social science research council, [1942]), by Gordon W. Allport and Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Appraisal of Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subjectivity, identity, and the body : women's autobiographical practices in the twentieth century / (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1993), by Sidonie Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Autobiographie. (Leipzig : B. G. Teubner, 1907), by Georg Misch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die deutsche Selbstbiographie, (Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1921), by Theodor Klaiber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : translated from the French / (London : Grant Richards, 1924), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Architexts of memory : literature, science, and autobiography / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Evelyne Ender (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a proletarian life / (Boston : Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1923), by Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Alice Stone Blackwell, Eugene Lyons, and Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The iron puddler : my life in the rolling mills and what came of it / (Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill company, [c1922]), by James J. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography : a critical and comparative study / (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1909), by Anna Robeson Brown Burr (page images at HathiTrust)
• English biography, (London [etc.] J.M. Dent & sons, limited; New York, E.P. Dutton & co., 1916), by Waldo Hilary Dunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die deutsche selbstbiographie, (Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1921), by Theodor Klaiber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mary Carleton narratives, 1663-1673, a missing chapter in the history of the English novel, (Cambridge, Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.], 1914), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust)

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