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OSIAV Biography & Memoir Archive is an independent catalogue of source-attributed public-domain editions focused on Biography & Memoir. Each record connects readers with edition facts, historical context and the original source record.

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This collection brings together 91 volumes spanning biographies, memoirs, diaries, journals, and letters. It includes the complete diaries of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), offering firsthand accounts of 17th-century English life, as well as the memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli and biographies of figures such as Robert Murray M’Cheyne and Hosea Ballou. Subjects range from women’s lives and enslaved persons’ narratives to the explorations of America and the social customs of Restoration England.

Representative works include Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (two volumes), True Stories of History and Biography, and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography. Editors and translators include Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Henry B. Wheatley, and Mynors Bright. This is a focused resource for students of history, literature, and personal narrative.

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