Biography - Dictionaries

Type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information

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A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors : containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles / by John Foster Kirk.
Kirk, John Foster, 1824-1904.Date: 1891
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Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.
Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839.Date: 1849-50
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Athenae Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford. To which are added the fasti, or annals of the said University / By Anthony A. Wood.
Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695.Date: 1813-20
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Men of the time : a dictionary of contemporaries, containing biographical notices of eminent characters of both sexes. / revised by Thompson Cooper.
Date: 1879
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Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries : to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.
Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.Date: 1813