Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs: Lives in Print
Dive into the lives of remarkable people with our collection of Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs. Explore personal journeys and histories of impactful and iconic individuals of the past and present.
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Trereife
A House of Character and Characters
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399012430
Pub Date: 2026-04-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
160 Pages
Trereife, Tim Le Grice’s historical Cornish residence, described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most charming houses in Cornwall’ has been home to a diverse range of characters over six generations...
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu
Scientist and Feminist
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399000482
Pub Date: 2025-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
288 Pages
300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador.
The Life of Richard Cadbury
Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526768292
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer’s shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started...
The Author Who Outsold Dickens
The Life and Work of W H Ainsworth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526766441
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
264 Pages
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 – 1882) is probably the most successful 19th Century writer that most people haven’t heard of. Journalist, essayist, poet and, most of all, historical novelist,...
The Loyalist Experience and Aftermath in Revolutionary Philadelphia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781955041102
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Brookline Books
224 Pages
New narratives on the lived experience of the Revolutionary War through five case studies exploring the spectrum of loyalist experiences in Revolutionary Philadelphia.
An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 9781739130312
Pub Date: 2025-02-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Papillote Press
250 Pages
The A-Z of Neglected Writers from the English-speaking Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region’s rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers...
Lady Constance Lytton
Prison Reformer and Suffragette
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526775030
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
“Prisons, as you know, have been my hobby” wrote the prominent suffragette Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton. An influential British activist as well as a writer, speaker and campaigner for votes for...
Cavalier and King of Man
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781913118860
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
368 Pages
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, was a pivotal figure in the Civil War in Lancashire, between 1642-51, and in governance of North-West of England across a quarter of a Century. As Lord of the Isle of Man, he enjoyed quasi-royal powers and fostered a court culture on the island which expressed itself through poetry, plays, masques and conspicuous d
Trereife
A House of Character and Characters
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399012430
Pub Date: 2026-04-01
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
160 Pages
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu
Scientist and Feminist
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399000482
Pub Date: 2025-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
288 Pages
The Life of Richard Cadbury
Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526768292
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
192 Pages
The Author Who Outsold Dickens
The Life and Work of W H Ainsworth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526766441
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
264 Pages
The Loyalist Experience and Aftermath in Revolutionary Philadelphia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781955041102
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Brookline Books
224 Pages
An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 9781739130312
Pub Date: 2025-02-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Papillote Press
250 Pages
Lady Constance Lytton
Prison Reformer and Suffragette
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526775030
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
Cavalier and King of Man
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781913118860
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Helion and Company
368 Pages