Name Biography
Description

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

Titles

Displaying 76–100 of 339

ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
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 St] (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 [Princes St] (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
22135 Authentick Memoirs of the Life and Conduct of Her Grace, Sarah, Late Dutchess of Marlborough, Containing a Genuine Narrative of Her Grace's Conduct, from Her First Coming to Court, to the Death of Her Royal Mistress Queen Anne, and from the Demise of the Queen to Her Grace's Death. Likewise All Her Grace's Letters to the Queen, and Her Majesty's Answers. To which is Prefix'd, the Last Will and Testament of Her Grace, from a True Copy of the Original, Lodg'd in Doctor's Commons. Churchill , Sarah
1744
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.
136 Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends, who were Resident in Ireland. By Mary Leadbeater. Leadbeater , Mary
1823
25031 Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. Compiled by A. Mott. Wheatley Peters , Phillis
Mott , Abigail
1826
25032 Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To which is added, a selection of pieces in poetry. Compiled by A. Mott. Wheatley Peters , Phillis
Mott , Abigail
1826
16963 Biographical sketches of the fathers of New England, intended to acquaint youth with the lives, characters and sufferings of those who founded our civil and religious institutions. By Mary Clark. Clark , Mary
Hemans , Felicia
Marsh, Capen and Lyon (Concord)
1836
15631 Biographium Fæmineum. The Female Worthies: or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies, of all Ages and Nations, who have been Eminently distinguished for their Magnanimity, Learning, Genius, Virtue, Piety, and other excellent Endowments, conspicuous in all the various Stations and Relations of Life, public and private. Containing (exclusive of Foreigners) The Lives of above Fourscore British Ladies, who have shone with a peculiar Lustre, and given the noblest Proofs of the most exalted Genius, and superior Worth. Collected from History, and the most approved Biographers, and brought down to the present Time. In Two Volumes. Unknown ,
Stanley Crowder (London)
John Payne [Feathers] (London)
John Wilkie (London)
William Nicholl (London)
John Wren (London)
1766
25791 Characters of the times; or, an Impartial account of the Writings, Characters, Education, &c. of several Noblemen and Gentlemen, libell'd in a Preface to a late Miscellany publish'd by P-----P E and S------F T. Unknown ,
1728
8888 Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington. Gardiner , Marguerite
Henry Colburn [Windsor] (Windsor)
Richard Bentley (London)
1834
624 Essays on the Art of Being Happy Lewis , Alethea
1803
6381 Facts dedicated to Her Majesty. The female spy; or Mrs. Tonkin's journey through France, in the late war, undertaken by the express order of the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox, secretary of state, this pamphlet contains a particular narrative of the hardships, dangers, and distress, she met with, the various intelligence the furnished to government, the means by which it was obtained, and in what manner the escaped being taken. Not having received any compensation for her sercies [sic] from government-she submits her case to the candor and liberality of a generous public. Tonkin , Mary
1785
368 Familiar Scenes, Histories, and Reflections. by the author of "cottage sketches." "antidote to the miseries of human life", &c. Corp , Harriet
1814