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

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ID	Title	Author	Firms (City)	Date	Edition
25406	An abstract of the lives of Eteocles and Polynices, the two sons of Oedipus by his mother Jocasta. With a brief account of the famous Theban war, collected from the best authors. Necessary to be perused by those who intend to be spectators of the new tragedy, called the Fatal legacy, and proper to be bound up with the play. To which are added, the arguments of Phænissæ of Euripides, written upon the same subject.	Unknown ,	James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London) Anne Dodd I (London)	1723
3454	An account of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, late of Kachecky in New-England: who, with four of her children, and servant-maid, was taken captive by the Indians, and carried into Canada. Setting forth The various remarkable Occurrences, sore Trials, and wonderful Deliverances which befel them after their Departure, to the Time of their Redemption. A new edition. Taken in substance from her own mouth, by Samuel Bownas.	Hanson , Elizabeth		1782	new
3457	An account of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, late of Kachecky in New-England: who, with four of her children, and servant-maid, was taken captive by the Indians, and carried into Canada. Setting forth The various remarkable Occurrences, sore Trials, and wonderful Deliverances which befel them after their Departure, to the Time of their Redemption. A new edition. Taken in substance from her own mouth, by Samuel Bownas.	Hanson , Elizabeth		1787	A new edition.
3384	An account of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, now or late of Kachecky, in New-England: who, with four of her children and servant-maid, was taken captive by the Indians, and carried into Canada. Setting forth the various remarkable occurrences, sore Trials, and wonderful Deliverances which befel them after their Departure, to the Time of their Redemption. Taken in substance from her own mouth, by Samuel Bownas. The second edition.	Hanson , Elizabeth		1760	The second edition.
3388	An account of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, now or late of Kachecky; in New-England: who, with four of her children and servant-maid, was taken captive by the Indians, and carried into Canada. Setting forth The various remarkable Occurrences, sore Trials, and wonderful Deliverances which befel them after their Departure, to the Time of their Redemption. Taken in substance from her own mouth, by Samuel Bownas.	Hanson , Elizabeth		1760
13490	An Account of the experience of Mrs. H. A. Rogers. Written by herself. With a brief extract from her diary.	Rogers , Hester Ann		1811
13491	An account of the experience of Mrs. H. A. Rogers. Written by herself. With a brief extract from her diary.	Rogers , Hester Ann	Thomas Blanshard [or Blanchard] (London)	1818
19260	An account of the experience of Mrs. Hester Anne Rogers: written by herself. To which is added, Spiritual letters, calculated to illustrate and enforce holiness of heart. Also, A sermon, preached on the occasion of her death, October 26, 1794, by the Rev. Thomas Coke, L. L. D. With an appendix, written by her husband; and containing selections transcribed from her manuscript journals.	Rogers , Hester Ann Coke , Thomas Rogers , James	John Kingston (Baltimore)	1811
3466	An account of the indisposition of the late Rev. Mr. John Wesley, and what passed between him and his friends, before his death. To which is added, some particulars of his birth, life, family, abilities, education, &c.	Ritchie , Elizabeth		1791
3431	An account of the remarkable captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, her four children and servant-maid, who were taken by the Indians. On the 27th of the eighth month called August, 1735, my husband and all our men-servants being abroad, eleven Indians, armed with tomahawks and guns, who had some time before being skulking about the fields, and watching an opportunity of our men's absence, came furiously into the house. ...	Hanson , Elizabeth	s.n. [sine nomine]	1770
4622	An address to the public, by The Honble Lady Hill; setting forth The Consequences of the late Sir John Hill's Acquaintance with The Earl of Bute.	Hill , Henrietta	s.n. [sine nomine]	1788
4630	An address to the public, by The Honble Lady Hill; setting forth The Consequences of the late Sir John Hill's Acquaintance with The Earl of Bute.	Hill , Henrietta	John Bell [132 Strand] (London)	1788
24900	An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, containing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most eminent persons in North America from its first settlement, and a summary of the History of the Several Colonies and of the United States. By William Allen, D. D., president of Bowdoin College; Fellow of the Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences; and Member of the Amer. Antiq. Soc., and of the Hist. Soc. of Maine, N. Hampshire, and N. York. Second edition.	Allen , William Wheatley Peters , Phillis	William Hyde & Co. (Boston)	1832	Second edition.
3176	An authentic narrative of the life, together with the circumstances relative to the departure of the late Rev. John Wesley, who died at his house in London, on Wednesday, March 2, 1791, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.	Ritchie , Elizabeth		1791
5413	An humble tribute to the memory of Mr. Sterne. By a lady.	Unknown , [Woman]	John Wilkie (London)	1775
15377	Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. During the last twenty years of his life. By Hester Lynch Piozzi. A new edition.	Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas and Joseph Allman [Great Queen Street] (London)	1826	A new edition.
15379	Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. During the last twenty years of his life. By Hester Lynch Piozzi. A new edition.	Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas and Joseph Allman (London)	1822	A new edition.
4713	Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. during the last twenty years of his life. By Hesther Lynch Piozzi.	Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale	James Moore [Dublin] (Dublin) John Jones [College Green] (Dublin) Richard Moncrieffe [16 Capel Street] (Dublin) John Cash [Capel Street] (Dublin) William McKenzie [Dame Street] (Dublin) Robert Marchbank [Dame Street] (Dublin) Patrick Byrne I [Grafton Street] (Dublin) Luke White [Dame Street] (Dublin) James Porter [Abbey Street] (Dublin)	1786
4710	Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life. By Hesther Lynch Piozzi.	Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Cadell [London] (London)	1786
4711	Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life. By Hesther Lynch Piozzi. The fourth edition.	Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Cadell [London] (London)	1786	The fourth edition.
4720	Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the last twenty years of his life. By Hesther Lynch Piozzi. The second edition.	Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Cadell [London] (London)	1786	The second edition.
4719	Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life. By Hesther Lynch Piozzi. The third edition.	Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Cadell [London] (London)	1786	The third edition.
749	Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, and Memoirs	Hawkins , Laetitia-Matilda	Francis and Charles Rivington (London)	1822
2317	Authentic anecdotes, of the life and transactions of Mrs. Margaret Rudd: Consisting of a Variety of Facts hitherto unknown to the Public. Addressed in a series of letters to the now (by a late act of Parliament) Miss Mary Lovell.	Rudd , Margaret Caroline	John Bew [Paternoster Row] (London)	1776
13545	Biographical Curiosities. The Strange and unaccountable life of the penurious Daniel Dancer, Esq. A miserable miser, who died in a sack, though worth upwards of three thousand pounds per annum. With singular anecdotes of the famous Jemmy Taylor, the southwark usurer. To which is added the life of the Rev. George Harvest, parson and comedian. A New edition with Additions.	Unknown ,	Ann Lemoine (London)	1799	A New edition with Additions.

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