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• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain
• Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Juvenile fiction
• Recluses
• Stanhope, Hester, Lady, 1776-1839

• Cranks (Persons)
• Eccentricities
• Fixed ideas

• Unknown Immortals in the Northern City of Success (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917), by Herbert Moore Pim
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Gallery of Eccentrics (c1928), by Morris Bishop (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Think of the Earth (c1936), by Bertram Brooker (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Hadrian the Seventh (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1925), by Frederick Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wickford Point (c1939), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope (London: J. Murray, 1914), by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Cleveland, contrib. by Hester Stanhope and Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Dutton, 1903), by W. H. Davenport Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (ninth edition; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by W. H. Davenport Adams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs, Narrated by Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1846), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story (read by the author in its entirety; c2004), by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (MP3 files (select this title from the "choose a book" menu) at pinkwater.com)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pennsylvania Hermit: A Narrative of the Extraordinary Life of Amos Wilson, Who Expired in a Cave in the Neighborhood of Harrisburgh (Penn.), After Having Therein Lived in Solitary Retirement for the Space of Nineteen Years, in Consequence of the Ignominious Death of His Sister (Philadelphia: Smith and Carpenter, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

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• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characters of Virtues and Vices, by Joseph Hall (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wonders of the Little World: or, A General History of Man, Displaying the Various Faculties, Capacities, Powers and Defects of the Human Body and Mind (new edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for W. J. and J. Richardson et al., 1806), by Nathaniel Wanley, ed. by William Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine (full serial archives)

• En Route (translation in this edition credited to "W. Fleming"), by J.-K. Huysmans, trans. by C. Kegan Paul (Gutenberg text)

• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Joycean Monologue (revised edition, with added articles; 2010), by Constantin-George Sandulescu (PDF with commentary in Romania)
• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1994), by Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture (prepublication version, 2012), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at MLA Commons)
• The Mark and the Knowledge: Social Stigma in Classic American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Marjorie Pryse (PDF at Ohio State)
• Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature (New York and London: New York University Press, c1992), by Bernard J. Paris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century (1891), ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (London: L. and V. Woolf, at the Hogarth Press, 1924), by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)

• Elements of Phrenology (1834 American edition), by George Combe (HTML at Plattsburgh)
• How to Read Character: A New Illustrated Hand-Book of Phrenology and Physiognomy for Students and Examiners, With a Descriptive Chart (New York: S. R. Wells, 1870), by Samuel R. Wells
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim: Founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular; and Indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind (second edition; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by J. G. Spurzheim, contrib. by F. J. Gall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practical Phrenologist, and Recorder and Delineator of the Character and Talents (Boston: O. S. Fowler, c1869), by O. S. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology, by O. S. Fowler (page images at MOA)
• A System of Phrenology (fifth edition; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1853), by George Combe (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Loma, a Citizen of Venus (St. Paul, MN: Windsor and Lewis Pub. Co., 1897), by William Windsor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Scientific Basis of Education, by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
• Crania Americana: or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species (with an appendix by Combe; Philadelphia: J. Dobson; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1839), by Samuel George Morton, contrib. by George Combe, illust. by John Collins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mind as a Cause and Cure of Disease, Presented From a Medical, Scientific and Religious Point of View (Chicago: The author, 1914), by Eli Beers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Comparative Physiognomy: or, Resemblances Between Men and Animals, by James W. Redfield (page images at MOA)
• Essays on Physiognomy (third edition, with additional physiognomonical rules, and a life of the author; London: B. Blake, 1840), by Johann Caspar Lavater, trans. by Thomas Holcroft, contrib. by Georg Gessner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Read Character: A New Illustrated Hand-Book of Phrenology and Physiognomy for Students and Examiners, With a Descriptive Chart (New York: S. R. Wells, 1870), by Samuel R. Wells
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim: Founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular; and Indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind (second edition; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by J. G. Spurzheim, contrib. by F. J. Gall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process (originally published 1971), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)

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