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Biographies and autobiographies
This collections includes memoirs, reminiscences, biographies, and autobiographies
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Memories of enjoyment
Kerryman Limited
1946
A collection of essays and reminiscences by the Irish writer, journalist, and politician.
The man who was Sherlock Holmes
John Murray
1964
An assessment of those elements of Doyle's character which justify the closest personal association of him with Holmes.
Hereward
Alan Sutton Publishing Limited
1996
A study of the Saxon thane who led a resistance campaign against the Norman invader.
Montague Summers: a memoir
Cecil & Amelia Woolf
1965
A biography of the English clergyman who published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration, and on witchcraft, demonology, and the occult. Number 740 of a limited edition of 750.
Lives of the brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William
Ingram, Cooke, & Co.
1852
Biographies of the two famous German scientists. From the library of noted cartographer John Bartholomew with loosely inserted invoice.
Conan Doyle: the man who created Sherlock Holmes
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
2007
A biography of Doyle drawing on newly re-discovered archival material.
Scottish eccentrics
George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.
1936
Ten full-length studies of outstanding Scottish eccentrics.
The company I've kept
Hutchinson
1966
A collection of closely related essays, principally about people.
The life of Raymond Chandler
Jonathan Cape
1976
A biography of the creator of Philip Marlowe.
Lucky poet: a self-study in literature and political ideas : being the autobiography of Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve)
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
1943
A first state copy with the libellous comment on page 172 alleging that Edgell Rickword had been a member of the 'Black and Tans' which forced the publishers to recall all unsold copies and insert a revised text.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Published for the British Council by Longman Group Ltd
1976
An introduction to the life and work of MacDiarmid.
Adam Smith: the biographical approach: being the thirtieth lecture on the David Murray Foundation in the University of Glasgow delivered on 3rd March 1969
University of Glasgow
1969
The thirtieth David Murray lecture which discusses the famous Scottish economist.
Jeeves: a gentleman's personal gentleman
MacDonald and Jane's
1979
A biography of Reginald Jeeves.
P.G. Wodehouse: man and myth
Constable
1992
A biography of Wodehouse revealing the personality behind the myth he created for himself.
My uncle George: the respectful recollections of a backslider in a Highland manse
George Outram & Co., Limited
1954
A compilation of newspaper articles about the Reverend George Mackay of Fearn in Ross-shire.
The strange story of Dr. James Barry: army surgeon, Inspector-General of Hospitals, discovered on death to be a woman
Longmans, Green and Co
1958
An account of Dr James Barry, who was probably the first woman to qualify as a doctor and practice as surgeon.
Macadam: the McAdam family and the turnpike roads 1798-1861
Heinemann
1980
A biography of J. L. McAdam and descendants who were the driving forces behind the construction of turnpike roads.
James Reekie of Kirkcaldy 1914-2001. His story from 1914-1940
Kirkcaldy Civic Society
2003
The autobiography of a Kirkcaldy man.
James Watt
B.T. Batsford Ltd
1962
A biography of the famous Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam engine.
Lord Kames and the Scotland of his day
Clarendon Press
1972
A biography of one of the leaders of the Scottish Enlightenment.
O. Douglas: the story of Anna Buchan
Sheila Scott
1993
A biography of the Scottish novelist and sister of John Buchan.
The Thinking Machine: Jacques Futrelle: discovering the titanic talent of a pioneer American mystery author
Graphic Illusions
1995
The first authorised biography of Jacques Futrelle.
Morris as I knew him
William Morris Society
1966
Reprinted from a 1936 collection of historical and practical essays on the Arts and Crafts.
The life of Henry Drummond
Hodder and Stoughton
1899
A biography of the famous Scottish evangelist and advocate of theistic evolution.
