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• Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by Susan M. Johns (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans, by F. M. Stenton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Some feudal lords and their seals : MCCCJ, with an introduction (De Walden library, 1904), by Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis Howard de Walden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• The household of a Tudor nobleman (The Torch Press, 1918), by Paul Van Brunt Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• The art of heraldry in two parts : the first concisely comprehending all necessary rules in the said art, with many useful examples of bearing, to facilitate the way of blazening any coat of armor : the second part giving a full account of the priviledges [sic], dignities &c. of the nobility and gentry of England : together with the achievements of each degree &c. according to the excellent method of Guillim's Heraldry, the whole illustrated with fifty two proper sculptures, for the better explanation thereof. (London : Printed for Hannah Sawbridge ..., MDCLXXXV [1685]), by Richard Blome (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Histoire de la pairie de France et du parlement de Paris : où l'on traite aussi des electeurs de l'empire, & du cardinalat (S. Harding, 1753), by Jean Le Laboureur and Mr. De G*** (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women" (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Lois G. Schwoerer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume V: multiple formats at Google
• 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)
• Life of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Mother of King Henry The Seventh (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839), by Caroline A. Halsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1928), by Lytton Strachey (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Autobiography of Anne, Lady Halkett, by Anne Halkett, ed. by Ellen Moody (HTML with commentary at jimandellen.org)
• The Life and Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart, Including Numerous Original and Unpublished Documents (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866), by Elizabeth Cooper, contrib. by Arabella Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (second edition, 2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1855), by Richard Robert Madden, contrib. by Marguerite Blessington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1855), by Richard Robert Madden, contrib. by Marguerite Blessington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe, Wife of the Right Honble. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., 1600-72 (London and New York: John Lane, 1907), by Anne Harrison Fanshawe, ed. by H. C. Fanshawe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, by Anne Harrison Fanshawe, ed. by Beatrice Marshall, contrib. by Richard Fanshawe and Allan Fea (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., Ambassador from Charles the Second to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid (new edition; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Anne Harrison Fanshawe, contrib. by Richard Fanshawe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt. Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid (London and New York: J. Lane, 1905), by Anne Harrison Fanshawe, ed. by Beatrice Marshall, contrib. by Richard Fanshawe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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)
• Margot Asquith (George H. Doran Company, 1920), by Margot Asquith Oxford and Asquith and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth and Essex (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1928), by Lytton Strachey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Lady Hester Stanhope (J. Murray, 1914), by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Cleveland and Hester Lucy Stanhope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of two brothers: Edward Adolphus, eleventh duke of Somerset, and his brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after (Longmans, Green, 1906), by Guendolen Ramsden, Duke of Somerset, Webb John Seymour, and Edward Adolphus Seymour Somerset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simon de Montfort, his life and work (Cornish Bros., 1923), by Thomas Somerset Bateman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Elizabeth's racketeer (Harper & Brothers, 1932), by Donald Barr Chidsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lady Hester Stanhope. (Viking Press, 1928), by Martin Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical peerage of empire of Great Britain : in which are memoirs and characters of the most celebrated persons of each family-- (Printed for J. Johnson, 1808), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of my life in the world of sport at home and abroad (Hurst and Blackett, 1895), by John Dugdale Astley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life & letters of Lady Dorothy Nevill (E. P. Dutton and company, 1919), by Ralph Nevill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Her late Royal Highness Charlotte-Augusta of Wales, and of Saxe-Coburg : ... to which is prefixed, a concise history of the illustrious house of Brunswick, brought down to the present time ... (Printed by H. Fisher, 1818), by Thomas Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• The royal dukes and princesses of the family of George III. A view of court life and manners for seventy years, 1760-1830. (Tinsley Bros., 1882), by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gone with the Windsors. (Winston, 1953), by Iles Brody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons : comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain (Harding, Lepard and Co., 1826), by Edward Blore and Henry Le Keux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Margot Asquith an autobiography. (G.H. Doran ;, 1920), by Margot Asquith Oxford and Asquith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kelly's handbook to the upper ten thousand for 1878 : containing about twenty thousand names of the titled, landed and official classes. (Kelly and Co., in the 20th century) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 3 (of 3), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 2 (of 3), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 1 (of 3), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, by J. R. Henslowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle, by Maud Stepney Rawson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Warwick, the Kingmaker, by Charles Oman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Horace Walpole: A memoir: With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press, by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography, by Kenneth Hotham Vickers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life, by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Jersey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Portland Peerage Romance, by Charles J. Archard (Gutenberg ebook)
• The grandeur of the law, or, An exact collection of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom whose honors and estates have by some of their ancestors been acquired or considerably augmented by the practice of the law or offices and dignities relating thereunto the name of such ancestor, together with the time in which he flourished, the society in which he was a member, and to what degree in the law he arrived being perticularly [sic] expressed / by H.P. (London : Printed for Arthur Jones ..., 1684), by H. P. (Henry Philipps) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• This Rol Was Laburd and Finished by Master John Rows of Warrewyk (1845 publication unfinished; this edition London: W. Pickering, ca. 1859), by John Rous, ed. by William Courthope, contrib. by William Pickering and Lambert B. Larking
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of the family of Grace ([s.n.], 1823), by Sheffield Grace and Rider and Weed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ([s.n.], in the 19th century), by John Debrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discoverie of errovrs in the first edition of the Catalogve of nobility (Printed by William Iaggard ..., 1622), by Augustine Vincent and Ralph Brooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland (William Pickering, in the 19th century), by John Debrett (page images at HathiTrust)

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