John Mitchinson - The Book of the Dead

Epicurus

Epicurus, The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia , tr. Brad Inwood and Lloyd P. Gerson (Hackett Publishing Co., 1994)

Benjamin Franklin

H. W. Brands, The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday, 2000)

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography & Other Writings , ed. Ormond Seavey (Oxford, 1993)

Edward Jenner

John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner (London, 1827)

Richard B. Fisher, Edward Jenner 1749–1823 (André Deutsch, 1991)

Mary Seacole

Jane Robinson, Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea (Constable & Robinson, 2005)

Mary Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands , new ed. (Penguin, 2005)

Moll Cutpurse

R. Sanders, Newgate Calendar or Malefactor’s Bloody Register (London, 1760)

Janet Todd and Elizabeth Spearing, Counterfeit Ladies (New York University Press, 1994)

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman, Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character (W. W. Norton & Co., 1985)

James Gleick, Genius: Richard Feynman & Modern Physics (Little, Brown, 1992)

Richard Leighton, Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman’s Last Journey (W. W. Norton & Co., 1991)

Robert E. Peary

Fergus Fleming, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole (Granta, 2001)

Jean Malaurie, Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003)

Josephine Peary, My Arctic Journal: A Year among Ice-fields and Eskimos , new ed. (Cooper Square Press, 2002)

Mary Kingsley

Dea Birkett, Mary Kingsley: Imperial Adventuress (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)

Katherine Frank, Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)

Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa , new ed. (National Geographic, 2002)

Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative: Of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent , new ed. (abridged), tr. Jason Wilson (Penguin, 2006)

N. A. Rupke, Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography (Chicago University Press, 2008)

Francis Galton

Martin Brookes, Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton (Bloomsbury, 2004)

Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences , new ed. (Prometheus, 2005)

William Morris

Fiona McCarthy, William Morris (Faber, 1994)

William Morris, News from Nowhere & Other Writings , new ed. (Penguin, 2004)

Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova, The Story of My Life , new ed. tr. Stephanie Sartarelli and Sophia Hawkes (Penguin, 2002)

Ian Kelly, Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest (Hodder, 2008)

Catherine the Great

Simon Dixon, Catherine the Great (Profile Books, 2009)

Virginia Rounding, Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power (Hutchinson, 2006)

Cora Pearl

Katie Hickman, Courtesans (HarperCollins, 2003)

Cora Pearl, The Memoirs of Cora Pearl: The Erotic Reminiscences of a Flamboyant Nineteenth-century Courtesan , ed. William Blatchford (Granada, 1983)

Virginia Rounding, Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans (Bloomsbury, 2003)

H. G. Wells

Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, H. G. Wells: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1973)

H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography , new ed. (Faber, 2008)

Colette

Colette, Cheri , new ed. (Vintage, 2001)

Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Bloomsbury, 1999)

Marie Bonaparte

Celia Bertin, Marie Bonaparte: A Life (Harcourt, 1982)

Alfred Kinsey

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey (Chatto & Windus, 1998)

Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male , ed. Alfred C. Kinsey (W. B. Saunders, 1948)

Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female , ed. Alfred C. Kinsey (W. B. Saunders, 1953)

Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead, My Autobiography , new ed. (University Press of Mississippi, 2008)

David Bret, Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life (Robson, 1996)

Helena, Comtesse de Noailles

Catherine Caufield, The Emperor of the United States of America & Other Magnificent British Eccentrics (Routledge, 1981)

George Fordyce

Clarke, The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, who Have Flourished in Great Britain (London, 1832)

John Cordy Jeaffreson, A Book about Doctors (London, 1860)

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria

Joan Haslip, The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965)

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Road to Wellville: A Comedy of the Heart & Other Organs (Little, Brown, 1981)

Henry Ford

Henry Ford, My Life & Work (NuVision Publications, 2007)

Steven Watts, The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford & the American Century (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

Howard Hughes

Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story (Little, Brown, 1996)

Howard Hughes, The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters , ed. Richard Hack, (New Millenium Press, 2001)

Pieter Stuyvesant

Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World (Doubleday, 2004)

General Antonio López de Santa Anna

Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

Daniel Lambert

Jan Bondeson, The Pig-faced Lady of Manchester Square & Other Medical Marvels (Tempus, 2004)

Florence Nightingale

Mark Bostridge, Florence Nightingale: The Woman & her Legend (Viking, 2008)

Florence Nightingale, Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005)

Hugh Small, Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel (Constable & Robinson, 1999)

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet , tr. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2002)

Fernando Pessoa, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa , tr. Richard Zenith (Grove Atlantic, 2002)

Dawn Langley Simmons

Dawn Langley Simmons, Dawn: A Charleston Legend (Wyrick & Co., 1995)

Oliver Cromwell

Antonia Fraser, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)

H. E. Marshall, Through Great Britain & Ireland with Cromwell (London, 1912)

Catherine de’ Medici

Leonie Frieda, Catherine de’ Medici (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)