Autobiography
John Stuart Mill and Mark Philp (ed.)
It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable John Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most ...
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An Autobiography: and Other Writings (2 ed.)
Anthony Trollope and Nicholas Shrimpton (ed.)
I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope’s account offers a ...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
Thomas De Quincey and Robert Morrison (ed.)
I took it: – and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's ...
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The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams and Ira B. Nadel (ed.)
As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An ...
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Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey and John Sutherland (ed.)
Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four ‘eminent Victorians’ dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and ...
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The Interesting Narrative
Olaudah Equiano and Brycchan Carey (ed.)
‘I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.’ Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, ...
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Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition
Robert Falcon Scott and Max Jones (ed.)
Captain Scott’s harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party’s optimistic departure from New ...
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
Frederick Douglass, Celeste-Marie Bernier (ed.), and Andrew Taylor (ed.)
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson (ed.)
It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one ...
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Life of Johnson
James Boswell and R. W. Chapman (ed.)
To write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others, and who, whether we consider his extraordinary endowments, or his various works, has been equalled by few ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass and Deborah E. McDowell (ed.)
‘I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as ...
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Specimen Days
Walt Whitman and Max Cavitch (ed.)
One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world's best loved and most ...
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