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[edit] A

• Agricola, by Tacitus
• John James Audubon by John Burroughs

[edit] B

• Sir Samuel Bentham by Mary Sophia Bentham

[edit] C

• Portrait of Julius Caesar by Suetonius
• List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 by William Douglas Parish
• Life of Henry Clay by Carl Schurz
• The Poetical Works of William Cowper (introductory memoir) by William Benham

[edit] D

• Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

[edit] E

• St. Edmund, King and Martyr, by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (955(?) - 1020(?)). A literary account of the martyrdom of St. Edmund, a King of England.

[edit] G

• James Gilmour of Mongolia by Richard Lovett

[edit] H

• Right Reverend Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, D. D. First Bishop of Central Pennsylvania: A Biographical Sketch by Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, Jr.

[edit] J

• The Life of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus

[edit] L

• Notice de la Vie et des Ecrits de George Louis Le Sage (English) by John Playfair
• The Story of Abraham Lincoln by James Baldwin
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 by John Hugh Bowers

[edit] P

• Albert Parsons, by Albert Parsons

[edit] S

• Biography of Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) Aviator
• Robert Louis Stevenson: a short biography by Edmund Gosse from 11th Edition Britannica
• Arthur Schopenhauer, his Life and Philosophy by Helen Zimmern, the influential work that introduced Schopenhauer and his philosophy to the English speaking world.

[edit] Collections

• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
• Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis (early biographical sketches of Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, et.al., written in 1906).
• Representative Men, 1850, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Heroes Every Child Should Know by H. W. Mabie
• The Beginner's American History by David H. Montgomery
• Lives of the Eminent Commanders by Cornelius Nepos
• The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, 1st-2nd century C.E., by Plutarch
• Men of Invention and Industry, 1884, by Samuel Smiles (biographies of British engineers, inventors and entrepreneurs).
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith
• Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 1st-2nd century C.E.
  • Lives of Eminent Grammarians
  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914 by James Grant Wilson (editor)
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• Goodspeed's Northwestern Arkansas/Biographical Appendix
• Men of 1914 (1915)