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• Charles Simeon, by Max Warren (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• J. C. Ryle, by M. Guthrie Clark (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• John Newton, by Albert William Parsons (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, Who Were Ejected or Silenced After the Restoration, Particularly by the Act of Uniformity, Which Took Place on Bartholomew-Day, Aug. 24, 1662 (2 volumes; London: W. Harris, 1775), by Edmund Calamy, ed. by Samuel Palmer
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Memoir of Henry Venn, B.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Honorary Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (new edition, with portrait and appendix; London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1882), by W. Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoir of the Rev. H. Venn: The Missionary Secretariat of Henry Venn, B.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Honorary Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880), by W. Knight, contrib. by John Venn and Henry Venn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)

• Memorial of Bishop Waynflete, Founder of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford (London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by J. R. Smith, 1851), by Peter Heylyn, ed. by John Rouse Bloxam (multiple formats at Google)

• Alumni Etonenses: or, A Catalogue of the Provosts and Fellows of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, From the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, With an Account of Their Lives and Preferments (Birmingham: Printed by T. Pearson, 1797), by Thomas Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Painted Windows: Studies in Religious Personality, by a Gentleman with a Duster (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Harold Begbie, contrib. by Kirsopp Lake, illust. by Emile Verpilleux (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1849), by Charles Wesley (HTML at Vision of Britain)

• Salem Chapel (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and sons, 1869), by Mrs. Oliphant (multiple formats at Google)
• Salem Chapel (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1870), by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Springdale Abbey: Extracts from the Diaries and Letters of an English Preacher (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1868), by Joseph Parker
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Paterson's Parish: A Lifetime Amongst the Dissenters (London: T. Burleigh, 1898), by Joseph Parker
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Bishop's Apron: A Study in the Origins of a Great Family (London: Chapman and Hall, 1906), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)

• The Correspondence of John Cosin, D.D., Lord Bishop of Durham; Together With Other Papers Illustrative of His Life and Times (2 volumes; 1869-1872), by John Cosin, ed. by George Ornsby
  • Part I: multiple formats at Google
  • Part II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Epistolae Herberti de Losinga, Primi Episcopi Norwicensis, Osberti de Clara, et Elmeri, Prioris Canturaiensis (in Latin, with some English notes; Brussels, A. Vandale; London: D. Nutt, 1846), by Herbert de Losinga, Osbert de Clare, and Elmerus of Canterbury, ed. by Robert Anstruther (multiple formats at Google)

• Memorial of Bishop Waynflete, Founder of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford (London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by J. R. Smith, 1851), by Peter Heylyn, ed. by John Rouse Bloxam (multiple formats at Google)

• The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth, and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London; With Memoirs of the Author, and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character (third edition, 6 volumes; London: Printed for Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1824), by John Newton, contrib. by Richard Cecil (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Newton, by Albert William Parsons (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)
• John Newton of Olney and St. Mary Woolnoth: An Autobiography and Narrative, Compiled Chiefly From His Diary and Other Unpublished Documents, by John Newton and Josiah Bull (multiple formats at archive.org)

• J. C. Ryle, by M. Guthrie Clark (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)

• Charles Simeon, by Max Warren (HTML with commentary at churchsociety.org)

• Memoir of the Rev. H. Venn: The Missionary Secretariat of Henry Venn, B.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Honorary Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880), by W. Knight, contrib. by John Venn and Henry Venn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Henry Venn, B.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Honorary Secretary of the Church Missionary Society (new edition, with portrait and appendix; London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1882), by W. Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of the Lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey, and of His Brother, James Alexander Haldane (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1853), by Alexander Haldane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American tract society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe"), Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary: A Narration of His Whole Career From the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America (Nashville, TN: Pub. for the author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912), by M. F. Jamison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the Backwoods Preacher (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1857), by Peter Cartwright, ed. by W. P. Strickland (page images at MOA)

• The Golden Dynasty: The Lives and Times of the Rizhniner Rebbes, by Yizroel Friedman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)

• Kami No Michi, The Way of the Kami: The Life and Thought of a Shinto Priest, by Yukitaka Yamamoto (HTML at csuchico.edu)

• Life of Mrs. Ellen Stewart: Together With Biographical Sketches of Other Individuals; Also, A Discussion with Two Clergymen, and Arguments in Favor of Woman's Rights; Together with Letters on Different Subjects (Akron, OH: Beebe and Elkins, Printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (PDF at akronlibrary.org)

• Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa; With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization (Baltimore: Armstrong and Berry, 1837), by James B. Taylor, contrib. by John H. B. Latrobe (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, From My Green Brier House: Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom (Philadelphia: The Author, 1861), by Israel Campbell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe"), Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary: A Narration of His Whole Career From the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America (Nashville, TN: Pub. for the author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912), by M. F. Jamison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, an African: Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend (New York: J. C. Totten, 1810), by George White (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Wilkerson's History of His Travels and Labors, in the United States, As a Missionary, In Particular, That of the Union Seminary, Located in Franklin Co., Ohio, Since He Purchased His Liberty in New Orleans, La. &c. (1861), by Major James Wilkerson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel, by Jarena Lee (HTML at nypl.org)
• Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church (Xenia, OH: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881), by David Smith, contrib. by David Alexander Payne (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the Pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South (Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894), by Sarah J. W. Early (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 Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church, With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847; Also, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou (Pittsburgh: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850), by A. R. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa (New York: Wright, 1854), by Daniel H. Peterson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman (Syracuse, NY: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1859), by Jermain Wesley Loguen
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Wilkerson's History of His Travels and Labors, in the United States, As a Missionary, In Particular, That of the Union Seminary, Located in Franklin Co., Ohio, Since He Purchased His Liberty in New Orleans, La. &c. (1861), by Major James Wilkerson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• One of the Wonders of the Age: or, The Life and Times of Rev. Johnson Olive, by Johnson Olive (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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