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Fifty Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal (based on the 1858 edition, with annotated names; 2010), by Cyrus Redding, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
Mary Warnock: Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by P. J. Graham (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Reminiscences of a Literary Life (based on the 1917 J. Murray edition, with annotated names; 2012), by Charles MacFarlane, ed. by John Tattersall and David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
- HTML at Bartleby
- Gutenberg text
Great Englishmen: An Historical Reading Book for Schools (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911), by M. B. Synge (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
Men Who Have Made the Empire (third edition; London: C. A. Pearson, 1899), by George Chetwynd Griffith, illust. by Stanley L. Wood
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Personalia: Intimate Recollections of Famous Men, Political, Literary, Artistic, Social, Various (published under "Sigma" pseudonym; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Julian Osgood Field
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Portraits, Memoirs and Characters, of Remarkable Persons From the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution, Collected From the Most Authentic Accounts Extant (new edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for R. S. Kirby, 1813), by James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies in Contemporary Biography (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by James Bryce (Gutenberg text)
Uncensored Celebrities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919), by E. T. Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
A Circle of Friends: the Tennysons and the Lushingtons (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1986), by John O. Waller (PDF at Ohio State)
Celebrated Cambridge Men, A.D. 1390-1908 (Cambridge, UK: A. P. Dixon; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1910), by C. G. Griffinhoofe
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; To Which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq.; and Lives of Eminent Men (2 volumes in 3; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), ed. by John Walker, contrib. by John Aubrey and Thomas Hearne
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II, Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II, Part II: multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
Stories of Old Families (Edinburgh and London: W. and R. Chambers, 1878), by William Chambers
- multiple formats at Google
- PDF (without illustrations) at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Nabobs in England: A Study of the Returned Anglo-Indian, 1760-1785 (Columbia University PhD dissertation; 1926), by James M. Holzman (page images at HathiTrust)
Fly Leaves: or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous, Consisting of Notes on Antiquarian and Historical Subjects, Collections Towards Neglected Biography, Memorials of Old London, Choice Specimens of Ancient Poetry, Chiefly From Unpublished Mss., Scraps and Sketches, Curious and Interesting, With Numerous Bibliographical Notices, etc., etc. (London: J. Miller, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of Eminent Etonians; With Notices of the Early History of Eton College (London: R. Bentley, 1850), by Edward Shepherd Creasy (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)
"Brief Lives", Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years 1669 and 1696 (2 volumes; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1898), by John Aubrey, ed. by Andrew Clark
- Volume I (A-H): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (I-Y): multiple formats at archive.org
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Great Britain -- Biography -- Dictionaries

Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Biography -- Periodicals

The General Magazine and Impartial Review (London, 1787-1792) (full serial archives)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Biography -- Portraits

A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (4 volumes; London: H. Graves and Co., 1899-1901), by Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin, contrib. by Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Great Britain -- Bio-bibliography

Dictionary of National Biography (first and second editions, with supplementary volumes; 1885-1912), ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee (multiple formats at Google and archive.org)
Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland and Ireland; With Lists of Their Works (enlarged and continued; 5 volumes; London: Printed for J. Scott, 1806), by Horace Walpole and Thomas Park
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, With Lists of Their Works (new edition; Edinburgh: Printed for W.H. Lunn, et al., 1796), by Horace Walpole (multiple formats at Google)

Filed under: England -- Biography

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)

Filed under: Liberal Party (Great Britain) -- Biography

The Grand Old Man: or, The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable Wiliam Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England, by Richard B. Cook (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Filed under: Scotland -- Biography

Lives of Scottish Worthies (3 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1831-1833), by Patrick Fraser Tytler (page images at HathiTrust)
Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents, by Alexander Whyte (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography

The Incomparable Siddons (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1909), by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian (new edition, abridged and condensed; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Mrs. Mathews, ed. by Edmund Yates, contrib. by Charles Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, Youngest Daughter of Colley Cibber, Esq. Written by Herself (London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829), by Charlotte Charke (multiple formats at archive.org)
On the Stage- and Off (London: The Leadenhall Press; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, ca. 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Kenneth Skeaping (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
On the Stage, and Off: The Brief Career of a Would Be Actor (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1891), by Jerome K. Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
Records of Later Life (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1882), by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Ellen Terry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
- volume 1: illustrated HTML at Virginia
- volume 2: illustrated HTML at Virginia

Filed under: Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography

Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography

Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896), by Bartholomew James, ed. by John Knox Laughton and James Young F. Sulivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
Lives of the British Admirals: Containing a New and Accurate Naval History, From the Earliest Periods; With A Continuation Down to the Year 1779 (4 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinsons, 1785), by John Campbell, ed. by John Berkenhout
The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson, by Robert Southey (Gutenberg text)
Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-1702 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1897), by George Rooke, ed. by Oscar Browning (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan
- Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
The Life of Sir John Leake, Rear-Admiral of Great Britain (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1920), by Stephen Martin Leake, ed. by Geoffrey Callender
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Adventure and adventurers -- Great Britain -- Biography

Memories and Adventures (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1924), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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