Memoirs

The Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl

by Elizabeth L. Banks Read by TriciaG 4.4
Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln

by Ward Hill Lamon Read by John Greenman 4.7
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

Confessions of a Tradesman

by Frank Thomas Bullen Read by Wayne Cooke 4.6
Frank T. Bullen is best known for his books based on his adventures at sea. However, he had a life on shore as well. He first went to sea as…

A Minor War History

by Martin Alonzo Haynes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

by Margaret Herschel Read by Kevin Green 5
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne and Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne Read by Gillian Hendrie 4.6
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." (Sum…

Prayers and Meditations

by Samuel Johnson Read by Steven Watson 4.4
The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johns…

Civil War Women

by Various Read by David Wales 4
This recording comprises two narratives. One is by Cora Mitchel who in 1861 was a girl in her mid-teens. Her Unionist family escaped the C…

Autobiography of a Seaman

by Lord Thomas Cochrane Read by Timothy Ferguson 4.1
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to…

Memories of My Life

by Sarah Bernhardt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

Petrograd, the City of Trouble

by Meriel Buchanan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The author of this work was the daughter of the British ambassador to Russia. She was in St. Petersburg (renamed Petrograd in 1914) from bef…

Over Prairie Trails

by Frederick Philip Grove Read by Bruce Pirie 3.8
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school …

Kept for the Master's Use

by Frances Ridley Havergal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Kept for the Master's Use offers a glimpse into the life of Frances Ridley Havergal, a dedicated missionary and celebrated hymn writer. Thro…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne Read by Gillian Hendrie 5
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 4.3
Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whe…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

by T. D. Bonner Read by Gary Olman 4.3
Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…

Notes of a War Correspondent

by Richard Harding Davis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Notes of a War Correspondent offers a vivid glimpse into the life of a journalist navigating the tumultuous landscapes of war. Richard Hardi…

Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer

by Joseph Rogers Read by David Wales 4.8
Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…

In Italy with the 332nd Infantry

by Joseph L. Lettau Read by KevinS 4.8
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in It…

Raising Children Who Hope in the Triumph of God

by John Piper and David Michael 4.5
"The most important school a child should ever attend is the home. The most influential theological teachers he should ever have are Mo…

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