The books listed within this page document the Biography theme through autobiographies, biographies and complete literary works by each author listed.
Thomas Bewick
-A memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself
Edited and with an introduction by Montague Weekley. With wood engravings by Thomas Bewick.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw NE1212.B5A3 1961a
Robert Burns
-Journal of a tour in the Highlands made in the year 1787
by Robert Burns. Reproduced in facsimile from his original manuscript in the possession of William K. Bixby, with introduction and transcript by J. C. Ewing.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4331.A3E8
-The national Burns, including the airs of all the songs in the staff and tonic sol-fa notations
edited, with an original life of Burns, by George Gilfilan.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4324.G5 1879 volume 1 and 2
-Poems of Robert Burns
Selected by Lloyd Frankenberg. Drawings by Joseph Low.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4303.F7
Lewis Carroll
-The diaries of Lewis Carroll [pseud.]
Now first edited and supplemented by Roger Lancelyn Green.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4612.A2G7 volume 1 and 2
Emily Dickinson
-The poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PS1541.A1 1937
Paul Laurence Dunbar
-The life and works of Paul Laurence Dunbar; containing his complete poetical works, his best short stories, numerous anecdotes and a complete biography of the famous poet
By Lida Keck Wiggins, and an introduction by William Dean Howells. Profusely illustrated with over half a hundred full page photo and half-tone engravings.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PS1557.W5 1907
Eleanor Farjeon
-Portrait of a family...
by Eleanor Farjeon; with many illustrations
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR6011.A67P65 1936
Kate Greenaway
-The Kate Greenaway treasury; an anthology of the illustrations and writings of Kate Greenaway
Edited and selected by Edward Ernest, assisted by Patricia Tracy Lowe. Introduction by Ruth Hill Viguers.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw ND1942.G8E7 1967
Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
-The poetical works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans; complete in one volume
by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4780.A1 1859
Thomas Hood "The Elder"
-Memorials of Thomas Hood
Collected, arranged, and edited by his daughter. With a preface and notes by his son. Illustrated with copies from his own sketches.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4798.A53 1860
Mary Howitt
-Mary Howitt; an autobiography
by Mary Howitt
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4809.H2A8 1889 volumes 1 and 2
Andrew Lang
-The life and letters of John Gibson Lockhart
by Andrew Lang; from Abbotsford and Milton Lockhart mss. and other original sources. With fifteen illustrations...
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR4891.L4L3 1897 volumes 1 and 2
-Poets' country: the homes and haunts of the poets
edited by Andrew Lang; twenty-four illustrations in colour by F. S. Walker
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR109L3 1913
Edward Lear
-Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica
by Edward Lear
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw DC611.C812L4 1870
Alfred Noyes
-Two worlds for memory
by Alfred Noyes
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR6027.O8Z5
James Whitcomb Riley
-James Whitcomb Riley's complete works: including poems and prose sketches
by James Whitcomb Riley; many of which have not heretofore been published; an authentic biography, an elaborate index and numerous illustrations in color from paintings by Howard Chandler Christy and Ethel Franklin Betts.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PS2700.F16 1916 volumes 1 - 10
-Riley child-rhymes
[by ]James WhitcombRiley; with Hoosier pictures by Will Vawter
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PS2704.C4 1905 copy 1 and 2
Robert Louis Stevenson
-A child's garden of verses: The complete edition: with a biographical sketch of the author, and an index of first lines
by Robert Louis Stevenson; illustrated by Eulalie
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR5489.C5 1961
William Makepeace Thackeray
-The works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in thirteen volumes
with biographical introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie; <illustrations by the author, George Cruikshank, and John Leech>.
Call number: Special Collections, Shaw PR5601.R4 1902
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