Biography

Name Biography
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A narrative, account, or anecdote about a specific individual.

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
14144 The Pathetic and Interesting History of George Barnwell. Founded on Facts. Carefully Abridged from Mr. Surr's Celebrated Novel by Sarah Wilkinson. Wilkinson , Sarah Scudgell
Skinner Surr , Thomas
 Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1804
24936 The Portraiture and Character of His Royal Highness Prince Frederick, Duke of Glocester. Hammond , Anthony
 1720
14533 The private character of Admiral Anson. By a lady. Hutchinson , Mrs. J.
 William Brien (also Bryan) (Dublin)
1747
14066 The Remarkable Life of John Elwes Esq. Member in Three Successive Parliaments for Berkshire. With Singular Anecdotes, &c. Written by Captain Topham. Supposed to Be the Greatest Instance of Penury That Ever Existed. Topham , Edward
 Ann Lemoine (London)
1802
15724 The Remarkable Life of John Elwes Esq. member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. With singular anecdotes, &c. written by Captain Topham. Supposed to be the greatest instance of penury that ever existed. A new edition. Topham , Edward
 Ann Lemoine (London)
1800 A new edition.
13590 The remarkable life of John Elwes Esq. member in three successive Parliaments, for Berkshire, with singular anecdotes, &c. Written by Captain Topham. Supposed to be the greatest instance of penury, that ever existed. A new edition. Topham , Edward
 Ann Lemoine (London)
1798 A new edition.
14067 The Remarkable Life of John Elwes, Esq., Member in Three Successive Parliaments for Berkshire. With Singular Anecdotes, &c. Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1797
15692 The Remarkable Life of John Elwes, Esq., Member in Three Successive Parliaments for Berkshire. With Singular Anecdotes, &c. Written by Captain Topham. Supposed to be the greatest instance of penury that ever existed ... A New Edition. Topham , Edward
 Ann Lemoine (London)
1797 A New Edition.
14074 The Royal and Noble Lovers; or, The History of the Great Earl of Essex and Queen Elizabeth. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Houndsditch] (London)
1806
25774 The second volume of The history of the lives of the most notorious high-way men, foot-pads, and other thieves, and murderers, of both sexes, for above fifty years last past; Continu'd from Du Vall, and the German Princess, which compleats the History to the present time. Wherein their Thefts, Cheats, and Murders, committed in Great-Britain, and Ireland, are farther are farther expos'd. By Capt. Alexander Smith. Smith , Alexander
 John Morphew (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1714
14077 The Seven Voyages of Sindbad, the Sailor. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
John Roe [Chiswell] (London)
1803
25204 The story on which the new tragedy, call'd, The Roman father, is founded. With some account of the author, and his writings. The Second Edition. Unknown ,
1750 The Second Edition.
14084 The Strange and Unaccountable Life of Daniel Dancer, Esq. Who Died in a Sack, Though Worth Upwards of £3000 a Year. With Singular Anecdotes of Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark Usurer. To Which Are Added, the Remarkable Life of John Overs; With Some Account of His Daughter, Who Was the Original Founder of St. Mary Overs' Church in the Borough; and, The Origin of London Bridge. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
1801
14085 The Strange and Unaccountable Life of Daniel Dancer, Esq. Who Died in a Sack, Though Worth Upwards of £3000 a Year. With Singular Anecdotes of Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark Usurer. To Which is Now Added, the Remarkable Life of Baron D'Aguilar, with Some Account of His Starvation Farm Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
1803
15730 The Strange and Unaccountable Life of the Penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A Miserable Miser, Who Died in a Sack. Though Worth Upwards of £3000 per Ann. With Singular Anecdotes of the Famous Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark Usurer, A Character Well Known Upon the Stock Exchange: To Which is Added, A True Account of Henry Welby, Who Lived Invisible Forty-Four Years in Grub Street; With a Sketch of the Life of the Rev. George Harvest; Called the Absent Man; or, Parson and Player. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
1797
14087 The Strange and Unaccountable Life of the Penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A Miserable Miser, Who Died in a Sack. Though Worth Upwards of £3000 per Ann. With Singular Anecdotes of the Famous Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark Usurer, A Character Well Known Upon the Stock Exchange: To Which is Added, A True Account of Henry Welby, Who Lived Invisible Forty-Four Years in Grub Street; With a Sketch of the Life of the Rev. George Harvest; Called the Absent Man; or, Parson and Player. The Second Edition. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
1797 The Second Edition.
15721 The Strange and Unaccountable Life of the Penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A Miserable Miser, Who Died in a Sack. Though Worth Upwards of £3000 per Ann. With Singular Anecdotes of the Famous Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark Usurer, A Character Well Known Upon the Stock Exchange: To Which is Added, the Life of the Rev. George Harvest; Called the Absent Man; or, Parson and Player. The Fifth Edition. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
1798 The Fifth Edition.
6703 The strange and wonderful history and prophecies of Mother Shipton. Southeil , Ursula
 1800
6704 The strange and wonderful history and prophecies of Mother Shipton. Southeil , Ursula
 E. Bates (London)
1750
6707 The strange and wonderful history and prophecies of Mother Shipton. Southeil , Ursula
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1775
6705 The strange and wonderful history and prophesies of mother Shipton. Southeil , Ursula
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1775
14092 The Three Misers: The Strange and Unaccountable Life of Daniel Dancer, Esq. Who Died in a Sack, Though Worth Upwards of £3000 a Year. With Singular Anecdotes of Jemmy Taylor, the Southwark Usurer. To Which Are Added, The Life and Remarkable Death of John Overs, With Some Account of His Daughter. Unknown ,
Ann Lemoine (London)
1801
5152 The triumphs of grace; or, the last words and edifying death of the Lady Margaret de la Musse, a noble French lady, who died in May 1681, Aged But Sixteen Years. Englished by P. L. de la Musse , Margaret
 George Nicholson and Co. (Manchester)
John Lawrence (London)
1795
2685 The true and affecting history of the Duchess of C****, who was confined by her husband in a dismal dungeon, under ground, where light never entered, and in which was nothing except a straw bed; bread and water being her only support, and that conveyed by means of a turning-box, by her unrelenting husband, whom the law but once during her imprisonment of nine years; in which course of time she frequently suffered the severity of extreme Hunger, Thirst, and Cold. But happily a few days before her tyrant's death, he disclosed the secret of subterraneous abode. To a friend; from which she was soon after released by her parents. du Crest de Saint-Aubin , Stéphanie Félicité
 1799
2684 The true and affecting history of the Duchess of C****, who was confined by her husband in a dismal dungeon, under ground, where light never entered, and in which was nothing except a straw bed; bread and water being her only support, and that conveyed, by means of a turning-box, by her unrelenting husband, when the law but ONCE during her IMPRISONMENT of NINE YEARS; in which course of time she frequently suffered the severity of extreme Hunger, Thirst, and Cold. But happily, a few days beofre her Tyrant's Death, he disclosed the Secret of her Subterraneous Abode to a friend; from which she was soon after released by her parents. du Crest de Saint-Aubin , Stéphanie Félicité
 1800

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