Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Early works to 1800
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Paul Hentzner's Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (based on the 1797 edition; Naunton fragment omitted; spelling modernized), by Paul Hentzner, ed. by Horace Walpole (HTML at elfinspell.com)- Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; and Fragmenta Regalia, by Paul Hentzner and Robert Naunton (Gutenberg text)
- The Diary of John Evelyn (2 volumes; New York and London: M. Walter Dunne, c1901), by John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray
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Filed under: Great Britain -- Court and courtiers- The Days Before Yesterday, by Frederic Hamilton (Gutenberg text)
- Memories and Base Details (London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1921), by Lady Angela Forbes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memories and Base Details (New York, G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1921), by Lady Angela Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Amazing Duchess: Being the Romantic History of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Maid of Honour, the Hon. Mrs. Hervey, Duchess of Kingston, and Countess of Bristol (2 volumes; London: S. Paul and Co., ca. 1911), by Charles E. Pearce
- The Court of Queen Elizabeth: Originally Written by Sir Robert Naunton, Under the Title of "Fragmenta Regalia", With Considerable Biographical Additions, by James Caulfield (London: G. Smeeton and J. Caulfield, 1814), by Robert Naunton and James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
- In Whig Society, 1775-1818: Compiled From the Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, Afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921), by Mabell Airlie, contrib. by Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb Melbourne and Emily Lamb Palmerston
- The Beautiful Lady Craven: The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven, Afterwards Margravine of Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the Holy Roman Empire (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Elizabeth Craven, ed. by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and Lewis Melville
- Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Written By Herself (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Elizabeth Craven
- Life of Sir Philip Sidney, Etc., First Published 1652 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1907), by Fulke Greville, ed. by Nowell C. Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John Earl of Rochester (London: Printed for W. Pickering, 1820), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)
- The Private History of the Court of England (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for the author and sold by B. Crosby and Co., 1808), by Sarah Green (page images at HathiTrust)
- Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (c1928), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the Time of Queen Elizabeth (Louvain: A. Uystpruyst; et al., 1908), by Great Britain Office of the Revels, ed. by Albert Feuillerat
- Memoirs of the Court of England in 1675 (London: John Lane, 1913), by Madame d'Aulnoy, ed. by George David Gilbert, trans. by Lucretia Arthur (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoirs of Count Grammont (based on 1828 and 1905 editions), by Anthony Hamilton, ed. by Walter Scott (Gutenberg text)
- Memoirs of the Court of Charles II, By Count Grammont (London: Henry Bohn, 1864), by Anthony Hamilton, ed. by Walter Scott (illustrated HTML at pseudopodium.org)
- Royalty Restored: or, London Under Charles II, by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (Gutenberg text)
- Court Satires of the Restoration (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by John Harold Wilson (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Wits and Beaux of Society (New York: Harper and Bros., 1861), by A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The Wits and Beaux of Society (2 volumes; 1890), by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, ed. by Justin H. McCarthy, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and James Godwin
- Fanny Burney at the Court of Queen Charlotte (London and New York: John Lane, 1912), by Constance Hill, illust. by Ellen G. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, by Fanny Burney, ed. by W. C. Ward
- The Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Charlotte Campbell Bury, ed. by A. Francis Steuart
- Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life (2 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, and Co., 1883), by Georgiana Baroness Bloomfield
- Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Maid of Honour to Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862 (London: Nisbet and Co., c1916), by Eleanor Stanley and Mrs. Steuart Erskine (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Maid of Honour to Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862 (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, c1916), by Eleanor Stanley and Mrs. Steuart Erskine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lady Login's Recollections: Court Life and Camp Life, 1820-1904 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1916), by Lady Login, ed. by Edith Dalhousie Login (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley, 1856-1884 (London: J. Murray, 1915), by Louisa Knightley of Fawsley, ed. by Julia Cartwright
- The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, by Fanny Burney, ed. by W. C. Ward
- Fanny Burney at the Court of Queen Charlotte (London and New York: John Lane, 1912), by Constance Hill, illust. by Ellen G. Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Anthology of Chancery English, ed. by John H. Fisher, Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher (HTML at Michigan)
- Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Written By Herself (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Elizabeth Craven
- The Beautiful Lady Craven: The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven, Afterwards Margravine of Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the Holy Roman Empire (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Elizabeth Craven, ed. by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and Lewis Melville
- Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
- Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegie, by Edmund Spenser (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- Life of Sir Philip Sidney, Etc., First Published 1652 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1907), by Fulke Greville, ed. by Nowell C. Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (4 volumes; Blackburn: Printed for Private Circulation, 1870), by Fulke Greville, ed. by Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Penshurst Castle, in the Time of Sir Philip Sidney (London: Seeley and Co., 1894), by Emma Marshall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia: Wherein is Handled The Loves of Amphialus and Helena Queen of Corinth, Prince Plangus and Erona; With the Historie of the Loves of Old Claius and Young Strephon to Urania (London: Printed by W. Bentley to be sold by T. Heath, 1651), by Anna Weamys (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
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