Gleanings : biographical / [156 articles by various authors; compiled by Edward Augustus Petherick]
- Bib ID:
- 432941
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- [Melbourne], [1902-1904]
- 156 pamphlets, bound : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Full contents:
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- Biographies A to I Alfred, the hero king
- A great naturalist
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Reminiscences of John Bright / by his nephew, Charles McLaren
- Extracts from some unpublished letters of Charlotte Bronte
- Prince Bismarck. by one of his countrymen
- An episode in the life of Thomas Becket
- Professor Blackie
- Saint Mary's lake (Yarrow)
- Roger Bacon
- An Italian official under Napoleon
- Two Princesses of the House of Bourbon
- Collingwood
- Lord Chesterfield
- Cowper's letters
- John Cabot: an anniversary story
- Reflections of Thomas Carlyle
- Neither genius nor martyr
- Froude's life of Carlyle
- The day of judgement
- The man of letters as hero
- Disraeli the younger
- 'Eothen' and the Athenaeum Club
- The life of George Eliot
- Erasmus and the reformation
- "To you I sing"
- An elizabethan adventure
- George Eliot's life
- Sir Richard Fanshawe
- Froissart the lover
- George Fox
- Reminiscenes of James Anthony Froude
- Sir Samuel Ferguson's life
- Sir Bartle Frere
- Sir John Hawkwood
- General William Hanley
- Life of Sir E.B. Hamley.
- Biographies J to Z Paul Jones
- Rambles in Johnson-land
- On some letters of Keats
- Charles Lamb and his biographers
- Murray of Broughton
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Montrose
- Hariet Martineau
- Seventy years at Westminster / by the Right Hon. Sir John R. Mowbray
- Frederick Denison Maurice
- Men and Women
- Life and correspondence of W. Buckland
- 'Life of Richard Owen'
- 'Life and letters of Dean Church'
- 'John Addington Symonds'
- 'Life and letters of Maria Edgeworth'
- 'Mrs Henry Wood'
- 'Recollections of the very Rev. G.D. Boyle'
- A study of Nelson
- On the character of Nero
- Christopher North
- The literary value of science
- Henri Pestalozzi
- The early life of Pepys
- The man Pepys
- Archibald Prentice. a page in the history of journalism
- Recollections of M. Boucher de Perthes
- Old Parr
- Low's life of Sir Frederick Roberts
- Leopold Von Ranke. reminiscences of Berlin, 1884-1886
- Memoirs of a highland lady
- The guerrillero
- Henry Schliemann
- Mary Somerville
- The letters of Sir Walter Scott
- Some unpublished letters of Robert Southey
- Glimpses of some vanished celebrities
- A heroine of the renaissance
- John Campbell Shairp
- A ballad of the Armada 1588-1888
- Talleyrand
- Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
- Archbishop Trench / by an old pupil
- Toussaint L'ouverture
- Henry Vaughan
- Gilbert White of Selborne.
- Volume 1 Fürst Bismarck / by George Moritz Wahl
- Harriet Martineau
- Prince Bismarck
- Lord de Tabley a portrait
- Coleridge and the Quantocks / by John Ll. Warden Page
- The Scottish castles and residences of Mary, Queen of Scots / by J. Cuthbert Hadden
- Henry Grattan
- The fortunes of the Bourbons / by Kate Mason Rowland
- The right Hon. W.E. Forster
- The memoirs of the Duke of Coburg
- Sir Edward Clarke / by Addison Bright
- Le Marquis Di Rudini
- Daniel O'Connell
- Maria Holroyd
- Gordon at Gravesend a personal reminiscence
- A fourteenth century parson
- A may queen festival with letters from Mr. Ruskin
- Joan of Arc
- The false Pucelle
- Moltke
- Adam Smith as a person
- Illustrated interviews Mr W.S. Gilbert
- The private life of Sir Thomas More
- Sir Henry Vane
- Mr. Chamberlain
- A chapter of Buddhist folk-lore
- Walter Bagehot
- Abraham Lincoln
- Some great Jewish Rabbis
- The story of the unhappy Queen
- Sultan Abd-ul-hamid.
- Volume 2 Principal Tulloch
- Life and letters of Wallenstein
- Life of Blücher
- Diary of General Gordon
- Camillle Flammarion a study
- The remains of Edmund J. Armstrong
- Public galleries and irresponsible boards
- An economist of the fourteenth century
- Wilfrid Laurier a character sketch / by J.W. Russell
- Sir Edward Hamley
- Gibbon as a soldier
- An old-world parson
- William Cobbett
- The new biography of Pope
- Mary Stuart at Saint Germains
- A friend of Lord Byron
- Thomas Binney
- Emanuel Deutsch a memorial
- Sacharissa's letters
- The autobiography of John Stuart Mill
- Some great biographies
- Thomas Paine / by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll
- The Pope at home / by Giovanni Amadi
- Recent biography, etc.
- Beecher's personality
- The work and mission of my life
- In defence of Harriet Shelley / by Mark Twain
- Recollections of Robert Loius Stevenson / by Andrew Lang
- Charles Sumner
- Tolstoï and "the Kreutzer sonata" / by Robert G. Ingersoll
- Hegel
- Motley and monarch
- Robert Burns as poet and person
- Leigh Hunt
- Traits of Jean Paul and his titan
- Otto Von Bismarck, man and minister
- Alexander Hamilton
- Holme's life of Emerson
- Fitz-Greene Halleck.
- Volume 3 The life of Darwin
- Mr Ruskin, artist and publisher
- A purely personal matter
- Mary Howitt: quaker and catholic
- "K.G. and Coster"
- Some recollections of the new Crown Prince of Germany / by a former tutor
- Lord Beaconsfield as a phrase-maker
- A tercentenary
- Some judges
- Francesco Crispi
- Napoleon
- The myth of Er
- The hero of the hour in Paris
- John Dunton, bookseller
- A French Curé in the sixteenth century
- Lucy Hutchinson
- Henry Fawcett as a man
- Fernando Mendez Pinto
- Henry Machyn
- Madame de Krüdener
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- An old society wit / by Mrs. Andrew Crosse
- Count Taaffe
- The Comte de Fersen
- The Prince Consort's university days
- The true history of Foulon and Berthier.
- Notes:
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- Bound subsequent to publication.
- National Library’s copy acquired as part of the Petherick Collection.
- Subject:
- Biography
- Other authors/contributors:
- Petherick, Edward Augustus, 1847-1917, compiler
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1917
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1904
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