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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Sort of Life	Graham Greene	160p	OL106048W
Life of Jane Austen	Goldwin Smith	“The first and best chapter contains an excellent sketch of Jane Austen’s life; the other chapters analyze her novels with delicate taste and fine critical faculty.” – Standard Catalog for Public Li…	OL1090431W
Anne Thackeray Ritchie	Anne Thackeray Ritchie	Peopled with such literary figures as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864–65 and…	OL1147067W
The Brideshead Generation	Humphrey Carpenter	Biographical and literary study. Oxford in the 1920s and Waugh's life afterwards.	OL12072301W
A Prison Diary	Jeffrey Archer,FF 8282	Please see https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1807104W	OL1807104W
Jane Austen	Carol Shields	With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the p…	OL18331W
Testament of friendship	Vera Brittain	In her famous volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, now an acclaimed BBC/PBS television serial, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonizing years of the First World War, lamenting the …	OL1971471W
A house unlocked	Penelope Lively	Penelope Lively has turned her considerable literary talent to non-fiction with A House Unlocked, a marvellous, meandering collection of memories inspired by Golsoncott, the Somerset country home occ…	OL1983006W
Oleander, Jacaranda	Penelope Lively	A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s…	OL1983041W
Brave Jane Austen	Lisa Pliscou	1 volume (unpaged) : 29 cm	OL20169622W
Reading and Interpreting the Works of Jane Austen	Connie Ann, Ph.D. Kirk	144 pages : 24 cm	OL20474884W
Meet Me in the In-Between	Bella Pollen	321 pages : 23 cm	OL21149294W
Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf?	Irene Coates	Was Virginia Woolf suicidal, or was she betrayed and driven to taking her own life? Irene Coates argues, with forensic precision, that Leonard Woolf was responsible for the unravelling of his wife's …	OL221630W
The Journals and Letters	Fanny Burney	Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her even…	OL2251989W
Snapshots of Bloomsbury	Humm, Maggie.	The private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in pictures.	OL2645638W
Trollope	Norman John Hall	Trollope was in his thirties before his first novel was published; before his death at sixty-seven he had written nearly seventy books, as well as conducting a quite separate career in the Post Offic…	OL2657141W
Don't Look Round	Violet Keppel Trefusis	The author's memoirs describe her precocious childhood as the daughter of Edward VII's mistress, her European travels, her friendship with Cocteau, Proust, and others, and offer a literary and social…	OL2870454W
The Brontës	Juliet Barker	A history of the Bronte family, attempting to demolish the myths surrounding the sisters, while providing new information based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and from contem…	OL2932961W
H.G. Wells, first citizen of the future	Keith Ferrell	A biography of the famous English author who wrote more than 100 books on a wide range of subjects.	OL2987487W
Enchanted Cornwall	Daphne du Maurier	This is Daphne du Maurier's personal memoir, the story of how enchanted Cornwall formed her as a writer -- how the spirit of Cornwall awakened in her a response so imaginative that it transformed ord…	OL36575W