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• Chronicles in Cartoon: A Record of Our Own Times (as published in 15 installments in The Windsor Magazine, 1906-1907), contrib. by Bertram Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Homes and haunts of the wise and good, (Philadelphia, W. P. Hazard, 1854) (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)

• Recollections of the late William Beckford: of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath, by Henry Venn Lansdown, ed. by Charlotte Lansdown (Gutenberg ebook)

• Nine famous Birmingham men; lectures delivered in the University, (Birmingham, Cornish brothers, ltd., 1909), by John Henry Muirhead (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of the Verney Family (4 volumes; London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892-1899), by Frances Parthenope Verney and Margaret Maria Verney
  • Volume I (Civil War): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Civil War): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Commonwealth, 1650-1660): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Restoration to Revolution, 1660-1696): multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of the Verney Family During the Seventeenth Century (second edition, revised; 2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904), by Frances Parthenope Verney and Margaret Maria Verney
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust

• Cornish Characters, and Strange Events (London and New York: J. Lane, 1909), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2), by Francis Trevithick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2), by Walter H. Tregellas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2), by Walter H. Tregellas (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy: Sent from the workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at seven years of age, to endure the horrors of a cotton-mill, through his infancy and youth, with a minute detail of his sufferings, being the first memoir of the kind published., by John Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

• Devonshire Characters and Strange Events (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text)

• De Gestis Herwardi Saxonis (The Exploits of Hereward the Saxon): From an Original Manuscript, Contained in a Book Compiled by Robert of Swaffham, in the Possession of the Deam and Chapter of Peterborough (Peterborough: G. C. Caster, 1895), ed. by S. H. Miller, trans. by W. D. Sweeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hereward the Fenman ... (Spalding, Printed by H. Watkinson, [1889]), by William Edward Foster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District, by Frederick Sessions (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lancashire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century, by W. Burnett Tracy; Contemporary Biographies, Edited by W. T. Pike (Brighton, UK: W. T. Pike and Co., 1903), by W. Burnett Tracy and W. T. Pike
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Liverpool a few years since: by an old stager, by James Aspinall (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Rulers of London, 1660-1689: A Biographical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilmen of the City of London, by J. R. Woodhead (HTML at British History Online)
• The Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III-1912 (2 volumes; London: Corporation of the City of London, 1908-1912?) (HTML at British History Online)
• Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1885), by James Anthony Froude
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Portraits of Curious Characters in London, &c. &c.: With Descriptive and Entertaining Ancedotes. (Gutenberg ebook)

• Men of Mark 'Twixt Tyne and Tweed (3 volumes; London and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1895), by Richard Welford
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Men of Mark 'Twixt Tyne and Tweed (3 volumes; London and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1895), by Richard Welford
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story, by Frank Harris (Gutenberg text)
• The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story (New York: M. Kennerley, 1909), by Frank Harris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Shakespeare (London: Macmillan and Co., 1909), by Walter Raleigh
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Fact and Fiction About Shakespeare: With Some Account of the Playhouses, Players, and Playwrights of His Period (Stratford-on-Avon: G. Boyden; London: H. Williams, ca. 1894), by Alfred C. Calmour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspeare and His Times, by François Guizot, contrib. by Achille-Léon-Victor Broglie (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Shakespeare, by Victor Hugo, trans. by A. Baillot (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare: Player, Poet, and Playmaker, by Frederick Gard Fleay (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Life of William Shakespeare: with portraits and facsimiles, by Sidney Lee (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek" (2 volumes; London: C. J. Skeet, 1859), ed. by Cyrus Redding (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)

• Aelfric: A New Study of His Life and Writings (Boston et al.: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898), by Caroline Louisa White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Cosmopolitan Actor: His Adventures All Over the World (London: Bedford Pub. Co., ca. 1888), by J. B. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dan Leno (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Jay Hickory Wood
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of Mary Robinson (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1895), by Mary Darby Robinson and Mary Elizabeth Robinson, contrib. by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)

• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (c1955), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Life of King Alfred, by John Asser, trans. by J. A. Giles (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• The Life and Times of Alfred the Great: Being the Ford lectures for 1901, by Charles Plummer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894, by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and Eugénie Hamerton (Gutenberg text)

• G. F. Watts (London: Duckworth and Co., 1914), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism, by Vern G. Swanson (illustrated HTML at artrenewal.org)
• Reminiscences of My Life (London: W. Heinemann, c1914), by Henry Holiday (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Memoir of Thomas Bewick (1862), by Thomas Bewick, contrib. by Jane Bewick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Blake (from the Popular Library of Art series, ca. 1910), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Blake, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• G. F. Watts, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Memoir of Thomas Bewick: Written by himself, by Thomas Bewick (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Blake: A Critical Essay, by Algernon Charles Swinburne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aubrey Beardsley, by Robert Baldwin Ross, contrib. by Aymer Vallance (Gutenberg ebook)

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