The Life of George Washington By John Marshall |
The life of George Washington, Commander in chief of the American Forces, During the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States. BY JOHN MARSHALL. |
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THE LOG-CABIN LADY : An Anonymous Autobiography |
The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear through mastery of manners and customs. It has been written by one who has not sacrificed the strength and honesty of her pioneer girlhood, but who added to these qualities that graciousness and charm which have given her distinction on two continents. I have been asked to tell how the story of The Log-Cabin Lady came to be written. At a luncheon given at the Colony Club in 1920, I was invited to talk about Madame Curie. There were, at that table, a group of important women………… |
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“Marse Henry” An Autobiography By Henry Watterson |
To My Friend Alexander Konta With Affectionate Salutation “Mansfield,” 1919 A mound of earth a little higher graded: –Henry Watterson………… |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY : LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI (THRALE) |
THE first edition of a work of this kind is almost necessarily imperfect; since the editor is commonly dependent for a great deal of the required information upon sources the very existence of which is unknown to him till reminiscences are revived, and communications invited, by the announcement or publication of the book. Some valuable contributions reached me too late to be properly placed or effectively worked up; some, too late to be included at all. The arrangement in this edition will therefore, I trust, be found less faulty than in the first, whilst the additions are large and valuable. They principally consist of fresh extracts from Mrs. Piozzi’s private diary (”Thraliana”), amounting to more than fifty pages; of additional marginal notes on books, and of copious extracts from letters hitherto unpublished…………. |
Dickey Downy :The Autobiography of a Bird by VIRGINIA SHARPE PATTERSON |
This beautiful volume has been written for a good purpose. I had the pleasure of reading the proof-sheets of the book while in the Yellowstone National Park, where no gun may be lawfully fired at any of God’s creatures. All animals there are becoming tame, and the great bears come out of the woods to feed on the garbage of the hotels and camps, fearless of the tourists, who look on with pleasure and wonder at such a scene. “The child is father of the man,” and this volume is addressed to the heart and imagination of every child reader………. |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW CARNEGIE |
AFTER retiring from active business my husband yielded to the earnest solicitations of friends, both here and in Great Britain, and began tojot down from time to time recollections of his early days. He soon found, however, that instead of the leisure he expected, his life was more occupied with affairs than ever before, and the writing of these memoirs was reserved for his play-time in Scotland. For a few weeks each summer we retired to our little bungalow on the moors at Aultnagar to enjoy the simple life, and it was there that Mr. Carnegie did most of his writing………. |
” ANNIE BESANT ” AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
It is a difficult thing to tell the story of a life, and yet more difficult when that life is one’s own. At the best, the telling has a savour of vanity, and the only excuse for the proceeding is that the life, being an average one, reflects many others, and in troublous times like ours may give the experience of many rather than of one. And so the autobiographer does his work because he thinks that, at the cost of some unpleasantness to himself, he may throw light on some of the typical problems that are vexing the souls of his contemporaries, and perchance may stretch out a helping hand to some brother who is struggling in the darkness, and so bring him cheer when despair has him in its grip…….. |
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BUFFALO BILL : By N.C.Wyeth |
“”Buffalo Bill—Col. William F. Cody. Frontispiece”"” “”"He Shoved a Pistol in the Man’s Face and Said: “I’m Calling the Hand That’s in Your Hat”"”. “”"Chief Satanta Passed the Peace-Pipe to General Sherman and Said: “My Great White Brothers”"”. “”Winning My Name—”Buffalo Bill”". “”It Was No Time for Argument. I Fired and Killed Him.”" read more…….. |
Up From Slavery : An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington |
The details of Mr. Washington’s early life, as frankly set down in “Up from Slavery,” do not give quite a whole view of his education. He had the training that a coloured youth receives at Hampton, which, indeed, the autobiography does explain. But the reader does not get his intellectual pedigree, for Mr. Washington himself, perhaps, does not as clearly understand it as another man might. The truth is he had a training during the most impressionable period of his life that was very extraordinary, such a training as few men of his generation have had….. …………. |
Twenty years at hull-house
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CONTENTS Preface vii I. EARLIEST IMPRESSIONS II. INFLUENCE OF LINCOLN III. BOARDING-SCHOOL IDEALS IV. THE SNARE OF PREPARATION V. FIRST DAYS AT HULL-HOUSE VI. THE SUBJECTIVE NECESSITY FOR SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS ………….. |
THE STORY OF MY HEART: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by RICHARD JEFFERIES |
THE story of my heart commences seventeen years ago. In the glow of youth there were times every now and then when I felt the necessity of a strong inspiration of soulthought. My heart was dusty, parched for want of the rain of deep feeling; my mind arid and dry, for there is a dust which settles on the heart as well as that which falls on a ledge. It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances……………… |
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin |
My father’s autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,–and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible, but natural. The autobiography bears the heading, ‘Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character,’ and end with the following note:–”Aug. 3, 1876. This sketch of my life was begun about May 28th at Hopedene (Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood’s house in Surrey.), and since then I have written for nearly an hour on most afternoons.”……….. |
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN |
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadelphia, where he arrived in October, 1723………….. |
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN by James Weldon Johnson |
This vivid and startlingly new picture of conditions brought about bythe race question in the United States makes no special plea for the Negro, but shows in a dispassionate, though sympathetic, mannerconditions as they actually exist between the whites and blacks to-day. Special pleas have already been made for nd against the Negro in hundreds of books, but in these books either his virtues or his vices have been exaggerated. This is because writers, in nearly every instance, have treated the colored American as a whole; each has taken some one group of the race to prove his case……………. |
The Autobiography of a play : By Bronson howard |
The qualities that made Bronson Howard a dramatist, and then made him the first American dramatist of his day, were his human sympathy, his perception, his sense of proportion, and his construction. With his perception, his proportion, and his construction, respectively, he could have succeeded as a detective, as an artist, or as a general. It was his human sympathy, his wish and his ability to put himself in the other man’s place, that made play-writing definitely attractive to him………….. |
The autobiography of a journalist, by William James Stillman [II] |
CONTENTS.: XX. CONSULAR LIFE IN CRETE XXI. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION XXII. DIPLOMACY XXIII. ATHENS XXIV. ROSSETTI AND HIS FRIEND and more……………. |
The Americanization of Edward Bok :The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok |
This book was to have been written in 1914, when I foresaw some leisure to write it, for I then intended to retire from active editorship. But the war came, an entirely new set of duties commanded, and the projectwas laid aside. Its title and the form, however, were then chosen. By the form I refer particularly to the use of the third person. I had always felt the most effective method of writing an autobiography, for the sake of a better perspective, was mentally to separate the writer from his subject by this device………. |
THE ADVENTURE OF LIVING : A Subjective Autobiography By John St. Loe Strachey |
I.–HOW I CAME TO _The Spectator_ II.–HOW I CAME TO _The Spectator (Continued)_ III.–MY PHYSICAL HOME, MY FAMILY, AND MY GOOD FORTUNE THEREIN IV.–MY FATHER V.–MY FATHER’S STORIES OF THE STRACHEY FAMILY ………………. |
Spence, Catherine Helen (1825-1910) : An Autobiography |
CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE IN SCOTLAND. CHAPTER II. TOWARDS AUSTRALIA. CHAPTER III. A BEGINNING AT SEVENTEEN CHAPTER IV. LOVERS AND FRIENDS. CHAPTER V. NOVELS AND A POLITICAL INSPIRATION. CHAPTER VI. A TRIP TO ENGLAND. CHAPTER VII. MELROSE REVISITED. ……………… |
Recollections of a long life : An autobiography by theodore ledyard cuyler |
CONTENTS.:::: I BOYHOOD AND COLLEGE LIFE II GREAT BRITAIN SIXTY YEARS AGO _Wordsworth–Dickens–The Land of Burns, etc_. III GREAT BRITAIN SIXTY YEARS AGO (Continued) _Carlyle–Mrs. Baillie–The Young Queen–Napoleon_ IV HYMN-WRITERS I HAVE KNOWN _Montgomery–Bonar–Bowring–Palmer and others_. |
Philip Gilbert Hamerton : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
“Intellectual living is not so much an accomplishment as a state or condition of the mind in which it seeks earnestly for the highest and purest truth…. If we often blunder and fail for want of perfect wisdom and clear light, have we not the inward assurance that our aspiration has not been all in vain, that it has brought us a little nearer to the Supreme Intellect whose effulgence draws us while it dazzles?”–_The Intellectual Life_… |
NOT GEORGE WASHINGTON: An Autobiographical Novel by P. G. Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook |
Part one _Miss Margaret Goodwin’s Narrative_ 1. James Arrives 2. James Sets Out 3. A Harmless Deception PART TWO _James Orlebar Cloyster’s Narrative_ 1. The Invasion of Bohemia 2. I Evacuate Bohemia 3. The _Orb_……….& more…. |
MARGOT ASQUITH An Autobiography |
When I began this book I feared that its merit would depend upon how faithfully I could record my own impressions of people and events: when I had finished it I was certain of it. Had it been any other kind of book the judgment of those nearest me would have been invaluable, but, being what it is, it had to be entirely my own; since whoever writes as he speaks must take the whole responsibility, and to ask “Do you think I may say this?” or “write that?” is to shift a little of that responsibility on to someone else…….. |
Library of little masterpieces in forty-four volumes |
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James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. |
I have had much pleasure in editing the following Memoir of my friend Mr. Nasmyth. Some twenty years since (in April 1863), when I applied to him for information respecting his mechanical inventions, he replied: “My life presents no striking or remarkable incidents, and would, I fear, prove but a tame narrative. The sphere to which my endeavours have been confined has been of a comparatively quiet order; but, vanity apart, I hope I have been able to leave a few marks of my existence behind me in the shape of useful contrivances, which are in many ways helping on great works of industry..”….. |
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Mark Twaint |
Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with “Claimants”–claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Claimant; Louis XVII., Claimant; William Shakespeare, Claimant; Arthur Orton, Claimant; Mary Baker G. Eddy, Claimant–and the rest of them. ……… |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRIEDRICH FROEBEL |
It will be long before we have a biography of Froebel to compare with DeGuimp’s Pestalozzi, of which an English translation has just appeared. Meantime we must content ourselves with two long autobiographical letters contained in this volume, which, though incomplete, have yet the peculiar charm that comes from the candid record of genuine impressions.The first of these letters, that to the Duke of Meiningen, has already appeared in English, in a translation by Miss Lucy Wheelock for Barnard’s American Journal of Education, since reprinted in pp. 21-48 of his Kindergarten and Child Culture, and in a small volume under the title Autobiography of Froebe…. |
The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of lieut. Henry ossian flipper, u.s.a., first |
THE following pages were written by request. They claim to give an accurate and impartial narrative of my four years’ life while a cadet at West Point, as well as a general idea of the institution there. They are almost an exact transcription of notes taken at various times during those four years. Any inconsistencies, real or apparent, in my opinions or in the impressions made upon me, are due to the fact that they were made at different times at a place where the feelings of all were constantly undergoing material change………….. |
Truth and fiction relating to my life by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE :::: TRANSLATED BY JOHN OXENFORD
Truth and fiction relating to my life by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE |
INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS CARLYLE. It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence has been salutary, such reputation merited………… |
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell AIRY EDITED BY WILFRID AIRY, B.A., M.Inst.C.E,1896 |
The life of Airy was essentially that of a hard-working, business man, and differed from that of other hard-working people only in the quality and variety of his work. It was not an exciting life, but it was full of interest, and his work brought him into close relations with many scientific men, and with many men high in the State. His real business life commenced after he became Astronomer Royal, and from that time forward, during the 46 years that he remained in office, he was so entirely wrapped up in the duties of his post that the history of the Observatory is the history of his life……….. |
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford by Reuben Shapcott |
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION The present edition is a reprint of the first, with corrections of several mistakes which had been overlooked. There is one observation which I may perhaps be permitted to make on |
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson white with portraits Volume I |
Table of contents:. Part i–environment and education Chapter i. Boyhood in central new york–1832-1850 chapter ii. Yale and europe–1850-1857 Part ii–political life Chapter iii. From jackson to fillmore–1832-1851 & more………… |
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope |
It may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at length, but said that he had written me a letter, not to be opened until after his death, containing instructions for publication. This letter was dated 30th April, 1876. I will give here as much of it as concerns the public: “I wish you to accept as a gift from me, given you now, the accompanying pages which contain a memoir of my life………….. |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF
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“Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief” was James Fenimore Cooper’s first serious attempt at magazine writing, and Graham’s Magazine would publish other contributions from him over the next few years, notably a series of biographic sketches of American naval officers, and the novel “Jack Tier; or The Florida Reef” (1846- 1848). |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED ESSAYS by Thomas Henry Huxley |
Edited, with introduction and notes by Ada L. F. Snell Associate Professor Of English Mount Holyoke College and much more………….. |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS OF ORVILLE DEWEY, D.D. |
IT is about twenty-five years since, at my earnest desire, my father began to write some of the memories of his own life, of the friends whom he loved, and of the noteworthy people he had known; and it is by the help of these autobiographical papers, and of selections from his letters, that I am enabled to attempt a memoir of him. I should like to remind the elder generation and inform the younger of some things in the life of a man who was once a foremost figure in the world from which he had been so long withdrawn that his death was hardly felt beyond the circle of his personal friends……… |
Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Auto-Biography
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Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it, when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public demand, and here with tender my history:……………. |
A Slave Girl’s Story By KATE DRUMGOOLD |
Being an Autobiography of KATE DRUMGOOLD. BROOKLYN—NEW YORK. 1898. Once a slave girl, I have endeavored to fill the pages with some of the most interesting thoughts that my mind is so full of, and not with something that is dry. |
Alton Locke,Tailor and poet : By the rev. Charles kingsley |
WITH A PREFATORY MEMOIR BY THOMAS HUGHES, ESQ., Q.C.,
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