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The following links will bring you outside of "Blupete's Website" -- So, Now is a good time, so that you might readily return to Blupete, to book mark "Blupete's Website". BOOKS: Biographies Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918): Education of Henry Adams (University of Virginia) This is Adams' autobigraphical work. He taught history at Harvard; and his magnum opus was History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison. Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832): Bentham: by John Stuart Mill Leslie Stephen on Bentham Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571): Cellini's Autobiography. Italian goldsmith, sculpture, and engraver, Cellini's is "one of the most interesting autobiographies ever written ..." (Chambers.) He lived alternatively, for some years, between Florence and Rome and was conected with to the most influential individuals of the age. Interestingly, Chambers informs us that Cellini was as "expert with sword and dagger as with his goldsmith's tools." Darwin, Charles (1809-82): Autobiography. (Project Gutenberg) Dickens, Charles (1812-70): By G. K. Chesterton at Nagoya University. Eliot, George (1819-80): George Eliot By Sir Leslie Stephen. (University of Toronto) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82): Representative Men Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90): Franklin's Autobiography (earlyamerica.com) Goethe (427-348 BC): See Emerson's Representative Men. Johnson, Samuel (1709-84): Boswell's Life of ... (Project Gutenberg) Samuel Johnson By Sir Leslie Stephen Marx, Karl (1818-83): An Essay On Karl Marx by Harold Laski. Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873): Mill's Autobiography (McMaster) Montaigne (1533-1592): See Emerson's Representative Men. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): See Emerson's Representative Men. Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805): Southey's, The Life of Nelson (Project Gutenberg) Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910): See Eminent Victorians By Lytton Strachey. Plato (427-348 BC): See Emerson's Representative Men. Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832): The Life of Scott by J. G. Lockhart. Smith, Adam (1723-1790): The Biography of Smith by Dugald Stewart. Shakspeare (1564-1616): See Emerson's Representative Men. Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-94): Robert Louis Stevenson by Walter Raleigh. (Project Gutenberg) Telford, Thomas (1757-1834): The Life of Thomas Telford By Samuel Smiles (Project Gutenberg) Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910): His Works Washington, George (1732-1799): George Washington (Weems @ virginia.edu) George Washington (David Ramsay @ earlyamerica.com) Watt, James (1736-1819): The Life of James Watt by Andrew Carnegie. PLATFORMS TO THE GREAT BIOGRAPHIES Chambers Biographical Dictionary Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online For many years I have regularly consulted the DCB. This many volumed work done by scholarly people occupies a whole shelf in my library: -- and now, it's online! Wonderful. BDUSC Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress. A searchable data base on American politicians from 1774 onwards. Biographies Brought to the 'net by the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Custom Search NOTE: Links checked in October, 2012 www.blupete.com