The following list gives some of the best known works of Biography:—
Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature and English and American Authors, 1859–71, Supplement, by J. F. Kirke, 1891; W. Hazlitt, Collections and Notes of Early English Literature, 1876–93; R. Chambers, Cyclopædia of English Literature, 1876, 1901; Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature, 1882–88; Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, 1885, etc., re-issue, 1908, etc.; Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, ed. by J. Grant Wilson and John Fiske, 1887, etc.; J. Thomas, Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, 1887–89; Men and Women of the Time, 15th edit., ed. by Victor G. Plarr, 1889.
LIST OF CONTRACTIONS USED THROUGHOUT THE WORK
| b. | born | Edin. | Edinburgh |
| c. | circa | fl. | flourished |
| Camb. | Cambridge | Glas. | Glasgow |
| Coll. | College | m. | married |
| coll. | collected | Oxf. | Oxford |
| cr. | created | pres. | president |
| d. | died | pub. | published |
| dau. | daughter | Prof. | Professor |
| ed. | educated | sec. | secretary |
| ed. | edition | s. | son |
| editor | Univ. | University | |
| edited |
