Series Great Lives {Duckworth}

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Shakespeare by John Drinkwater 13 copies1
Queen Victoria by Baron Arthur Ponsonby Ponsonby 3 copies2
Wagner by W. J. Turner 3 copies3
John Wesley (Great Lives) by Bonamy Dobree 16 copies4
Sir Joshua Reynolds by John Steegmann 2 copies5
Cecil Rhodes by J. G. Lockhart 8 copies6
Gladstone by Francis Birrell 4 copies7
George Eliot by Anne Fremantle 3 copies8
The Brontes by Irene Cooper Willis 6 copies9
Charles II: Great Lives by John Hayward 1 copy10
Dickens by Bernard Darwin 4 copies11
Beethoven by Alan Pryce-Jones 16 copies12
H. M. Stanley by A. J. A. Symons 4 copies13
William Blake by Alan Clutton-Brock 4 copies14
Sheridan by W. A. Darlington 3 copies15
The Life of Robert Burns by Catherine Carswell 37 copies16
Edward VII by H. E. Wortham 5 copies17
Thackeray, (Great lives [18]) by Geoffrey Uther Ellis 1 copy18
Napoleon III by Graham Brooks 3 copies19
Strindberg by G. A. Campbell 2 copies20
Nelson; Great Lives by Brian Tunstall 1 copy21
Nietzsche by Gerald Abraham 5 copies23
Field-Marshal Earl Haig by Brigadier-General John Charteris 13 copies24
Bach by Esther Meynell 3 copies25
Milton by Rose Macaulay 6 copies26
Darwin. [A biography.] by R.W.G. Hingston 2 copies27
Byron by Peter Quennell 4 copies28
Van Gogh (Collier books, AS65Y) by Peter Burra 5 copies29
Charles Lamb, by Orlo Williams 1 copy31
Keats (Great Lives. no. 32.) by B. Ifor Evans 1 copy32
W.G. Grace by Bernard Darwin 16 copies35
Newman by Sidney Dark 6 copies36
Shelley by Ruth Bailey 1 copy39
Mozart by J. E. Talbot 3 copies41
Handel by Edward J. Dent 10 copies42
Garibaldi by Evarts Scudder 1 copy43
Drake by Douglas Bell 1 copy46
Tolstoy, (Great lives. [47]) by Gerald Abraham 1 copy47
Abraham Lincoln by D. W. Brogan 10 copies48
Captain Cook by Rupert Gould 4 copies49
Doctor Johnson by Sydney Castle Roberts 1 copy50
Wolsey by Ashley Sampson 5 copies51
Prince Charles Edward, (Great lives. [52]) by Carola Oman 1 copy52
Thomas Gray: A biography by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer 4 copies54
WILLIAM PITT, (GREAT LIVES) by Charles Petrie 1 copy55
King James I; Great Lives by Hugh Ross Williamson 2 copies59
Livingstone by D. C. Somervell 1 copy61
Wordsworth by Peter Burra 7 copies63
Ruskin ( Biigraphy ) by Crow Gerald 1 copy64
Disraeli (Great Lives) by Harold Beeley 2 copies65
Great Lives: John Knox by G R Pearce 4 copies66
Wellington by Cruttwell C.R.M.F. 2 copies67
Dostoevski by Gerald Abraham 2 copies69
Asquith: Great Lives by R. B. McCallum 1 copy70
Queen Elizabeth I by Charles Williams 4 copies71
Clive, (Great lives. [73]) by George Dunbar 1 copy73
St. Francis of Assisi by T. S. R. Boase 7 copies74
Marlborough by Maurice Ashley 8 copies81
Napoleon by Herbert Butterfield 47 copies82
Oliver Cromwell by C. V. Wedgwood 73 copies83
T.E. Lawrence by Vyvyan Richards 5 copies84
Brahms by Ralph Hill 5 copies85
Bismarck by Ian F.D. Morrow 16 copies88

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Great Lives was a series of biographies, mainly of British figures, published by Duckworth from the 1930s through the 1960s. (English, Member-written)

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