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Angelo, Henry Charles William (1756–1835), fencing master and memoirist
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Barron, William (1835–1913), mariner and autobiographer
Arthur G. Credland
Barron, William (1835–1913), mariner and autobiographer, was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, on 27 April 1835, the son of William Stephenson Barron (1797–1855), mariner. After three years at the Hull Trinity House Navigation School he was apprenticed on 27 March 1849, aboard the whaleship ...
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See Metcalfe, Sir Thomas Theophilus, fourth baronet
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Beaumont, Agnes (bap. 1652, d. 1720), religious autobiographer
W. R. Owens
Beaumont, Agnes (bap. 1652, d. 1720), religious autobiographer, was born in Edworth, Bedfordshire, where she was baptized Ann on 1 September 1652, the youngest of seven children (of whom three died in infancy) of John Beaumont, yeoman farmer of Edworth, and his wife, ...
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Blixen, Karen Christenze [Isak Dinesen] (1885–1962)
Maker: unknown photographer
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Karen Christenze Blixen [Isak Dinesen] (1885–1962) by unknown photographer The Royal Library, Copenhagen
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Blixen [née Dinesen], Karen Christenze [pseud. Isak Dinesen] (1885–1962), autobiographer and short-story writer
Liz Gunner
Blixen [née Dinesen], Karen Christenze [pseud. Isak Dinesen] (1885–1962), autobiographer and short-story writer, was born on 17 April 1885 in Rungstedlund, near Copenhagen, Denmark, the second of five children of Wilhelm Adolph Dinesen (1845–1895) and his wife, Ingeborg Westenholz (1856–1940). Thomas...
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Boruwlaski, Joseph [formerly Józef Boruslawski], styled Count Boruwlaski (1739–1837), travelling performer and memoirist
Margot Johnson
Boruwlaski, Joseph [formerly Józef Boruslawski], styled Count Boruwlaski (1739–1837), travelling performer and memoirist, was born in November 1739 near Halicz, Galicia, Poland, the third son of a lower gentry family. The principal source for his life is his own memoirs, published in several editions between 1788 and 1820. When he was nine his father died, leaving a widow with five sons and one daughter. Three sons were very tall, but three children suffered from achondroplasia, an inherited condition in which the cartilage in the bones fails to grow. ...
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Bramston, Sir John, the younger (1611–1700), politician and autobiographer
Thomas M. Coakley
Bramston, Sir John, the younger (1611–1700), politician and autobiographer, was born in the family home in Whitechapel, London, and was baptized on 11 September 1611, eldest son and fourth of nine children of Sir John Bramston (1577–1654), chief justice of king's bench, and his first wife, ...
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Brasbridge, Joseph (1744–1832), autobiographer
Paul Foster
Brasbridge, Joseph (1744–1832), autobiographer, was born on 17 March 1744 in Buckinghamshire, the son of 'an inland farmer' (Brasbridge, 1st edn, 2), Rowland Brasbridge, and his wife, Mary; he was baptized at St Mary's, Aylesbury, on 28 March 1744. Having moved to ...
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Bruce, Thomas, second earl of Ailesbury (1656–1741), nobleman and memoirist
Victor Stater
Bruce, Thomas, second earl of Ailesbury (1656–1741), nobleman and memoirist, was born on 26 September 1656, probably at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, the fifth but first surviving son of Robert Bruce, first earl of Ailesbury (bap. 1626, d. 1685), and his wife, Diana (d...
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Burn [McBurney], James (1800x03–1889), autobiographer
Emma Griffin
Burn [McBurney], James (1800x03–1889), autobiographer, was according to his own account born in Ireland at some point (he thought) between 1800 and 1803, the illegitimate son of an Irishman named McBurney. His father deserted the family at the time of his birth, and following this his mother, ...
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Caesar [née Freman, Freeman], Mary (1677–1741), Jacobite memoirist
Valerie Rumbold
Caesar [née Freman, Freeman], Mary (1677–1741), Jacobite memoirist, was a younger daughter of Ralph Freman (1627–1714) of Aspenden Hall, and his wife Elizabeth, née Aubrey (1644–1721). On 24 November 1702 Mary married tory Jacobite MP Charles Caesar...
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Campbell [née Duncan], Elizabeth (1804–1878), poet and autobiographer
Florence S. Boos
Campbell [née Duncan], Elizabeth (1804–1878), poet and autobiographer, was born at Quarry Head, Edzell, Forfarshire, on 11 February 1804, and baptized in the parish of Tannadice, the fifth of eight surviving children of James Duncan, a ploughman, and his first wife, whose name is not known. Her first clear memory was of her mother’s death, when she was three. She had only a very brief session of schooling, but she recorded the books to which she gained access during her life, beginning with gifts of penny books from her stepmother. At age seven she began farm work away from home. Her memoir of her early life recalled her father as sternly harsh, and the farmer’s wife who employed her as physically abusive, but she also recorded her ecstatic delight in natural beauty, eager love of learning, and lively interest in all animals, including insects. She progressed through farming occupations and worked as a domestic servant and cook in a grand house in ...
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Cannon, John (1684–1743), excise official and autobiographer
Tim Hitchcock
Cannon, John (1684–1743), excise official and autobiographer, was born on 28 March 1684, the third but eldest surviving child of John Cannon (b. 1648), smallholder and butcher, and his wife, Elizabeth Hooper (b. 1644), in the small central Somerset village of ...
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Carey [née Jackson], Mary, Lady Carey (b. c. 1609, d. in or after 1680), author of verse and autobiographical meditations
Sara H. Mendelson
Carey [née Jackson], Mary, Lady Carey (b. c. 1609, d. in or after 1680), author of verse and autobiographical meditations, was the daughter and heir of Sir John Jackson of Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland; she wrote of her family that 'I had tenderly loving parents...
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Carleton, George (1651/2?–1728x30), army officer and memoirist
John Ormsby
revised by R. L. Winstanley
Carleton, George (1651/2
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Carlyle, Alexander (1722–1805)
Maker: Sir Henry Raeburn
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Alexander Carlyle (1722–1805) by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1796 Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Carlyle, Alexander (1722–1805), Church of Scotland minister and memorialist
Richard B. Sher
Carlyle, Alexander (1722–1805), Church of Scotland minister and memorialist, was born on 26 January 1722, the eldest child of the Revd William Carlyle (1689–1765) and Janet Robeson (1700–1779). He was descended on his father's side from a distinguished Cumberland family who had long before crossed over the Scottish border and established themselves in ...
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Cholmley, Sir Hugh, first baronet (1600–1657), royalist army officer and autobiographer
Jack Binns
Cholmley, Sir Hugh, first baronet (1600–1657), royalist army officer and autobiographer, was born on 22 July 1600 at Roxby Castle, Thornton on the Hill (now Thornton Dale) in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest son of Sir Richard Cholmley (1580–1631) and Susannah (1578–1611)...
