* Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents ( 1845 )

Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish an account of their public exploits.

In Sassoon's autobiography ( under the guise of The Memoirs of George Sherston ) Rivers is one of the few characters to retain their original names.

Memoirs tended to be written by politicians or people in court society, later joined by military leaders and businessmen, and often dealt exclusively with the writer's careers rather than their private life.

He also published A True Relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen ( 1671 ), an account of Holles's intercession on their behalf and of his dispute with Lord Chief Justice Keeling ; and he left Memoirs, written in exile in 1649, and dedicated " to the unparalleled Couple, Mr Oliver St John ... and Mr Oliver Cromwell ..." published in 1699 and reprinted in Baron Maseres's Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars, I.

One of his last requests having been that his wife would write down recollections of their common life, she published his Memoirs in 1868, which contain much of his private correspondence.

A longtime friend of the Levett family of Lichfield, Seward noted in her Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin that three of the town's foremost citizens had been thrown from their carriages and had injured their knees in the same year.

According to his Memoirs he believed that Cromwell " had not appeared that he ever approved on any persons farther than he might make them subservient to his own ambitious designs ; ... and that the generality of the people that had engaged with us having acted upon no higher principles than those of civil liberty, and that they might be governed by their own consent, it could not be just to treat them in another manner upon any pretenses whatsoever.

Sherman later recalled in his 1875 Memoirs of Johnson angrily confronting Coleman and other Vigilante ringleaders in their makeshift headquarters, exclaiming, " Coleman, what the devil is the matter here?

Their reading of Schreber's Memoirs is a part of their wider criticism of familial orientation of psychoanalysis and it foregrounds the political and racial elements of the text ; they see Schreber's written experience of reality abnormal only in its honesty about the experience of power in late capitalism.

* Kessinger Publishing, as of 2007, publish The Magic Mirror, Christmas Tale, " Memoirs of a Cynic, Shirley Hall Asylum, Lucrezia Borgia and The Last Lords of Gardonal in their list of republished rare books.

In 1846, he published in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey, i. 336, his important essay On the Connection between the distribution of the existing Fauna and Flora of the British Isles, and the Geological Changes which have affected their Area, especially during the epoch of the Northern Drift.

The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, & c., with Memoirs of their Lives ( 1731 ) is catalogued ( No. 20841 ) by H. G. Bohn in 1841.

He visited Portugal and was presented to the court, of which he gives a curious account in his Historical Memoirs ; and in the north of Europe he made the acquaintance of several Danish nobles who had been exiled for their support of the deposed Queen Caroline Matilda, sister of George III.

It is entitled Memoirs of Missionary Priests and other Catholicks of both Sexes who suffered Death or Imprisonment in England on account of their Religion, from the year 1577 till the end of the reign of Charles II ( 2 vols.

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden begins as the female main character and her sister are dropped off in the pleasure district after being separated from their family in 19th century Japan.

In celebration of their career, they recorded one final single entitled " I'll Follow ", which was available for free download on their MySpace, and released a DVD called " Memoirs of a Common Band ", which is essentially an overview of their career.

These people and experiences are often portrayed negatively in Memoirs, even when their real-life counterparts were positive for Iwasaki.

** Anna Jameson, Memoirs of Beauties of the Court of Charles II, with their Portraits ( 2nd ed., London, 1838 )

In his Memoirs of Service Afloat, Raphael Semmes contended that the announcement of a blockade carried de facto recognition of the Confederate States of America as an independent national entity since countries do not blockade their own ports but rather close them.

At his death it was found that he had left his mistress, with whom he had lived for four years, his sole executrix and legatee, and Greville notes in his Memoirs the anxiety of Brougham and others to get the papers into their hands and suppress them.

In The Memoirs Of A Shy Pornographer ( 1945 ) Patchen exploited this national sentiment by making his hero, Albert Budd, a private detective.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

* Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik, by Cecilia Bobrovskaya

The earliest written reference to crochet refers to slip stitch crochet | shepherd's knitting from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant ( 1797 – 1830 ) in the 19th century.

A biography, Memoirs of John Abernethy, by George Macilwain ( 1797 – 1882 ), appeared in 1853.

* 1995: Waking The Moon by Elizabeth Hand and The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak

* Carter, Harvey Lewis " Dear Old Kit ": The Historical Christopher Carson, University of Oklahoma Press, hardcover ( 1968 ), 250 pages ; trade paperback reprint, University of Oklahoma Press ( August 1990 ), 250 pages, ISBN 978-0-8061-2253-3 Pages 38 to 150 of " Dear Old Kit " consist of an annotated edition of " The Kit Carson Memoirs, 1809-1856 ", an original manuscript dictated by Kit Carson with 322 annotations by Carter.

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

* Etext full version of the Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, a biography of Saint Louis written by one of his knights

* The Memoirs of Cleopatra, a novel by Margaret George

* Astronomiae Fundamenta ( 1757 ), containing a standard catalogue of 398 stars, re-edited by F. Baily ( Memoirs Roy.

One early story with hints of backwards time travel is Memoirs of the Twentieth Century ( 1733 ) by Samuel Madden, which is mainly a series of letters from British ambassadors in various countries to the British Lord High Treasurer, along with a few replies from the British Foreign Office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era.

In Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U. S. 413, the court ruled that sex was " a great and mysterious motive force in human life ", and that its expression in literature was protected by the First Amendment.

* The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville, translated by Ethel Wedgwood

* Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert, ed., Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

xiii of the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society and by Edward Ball Knobel in Ulugh Beg's Catalogue of Stars, Revised from all Persian Manuscripts Existing in Great Britain, with a Vocabulary of Persian and Arabic Words ( 1917 ).

Sherman wrote in his Memoirs that his father named him William Tecumseh ; Sherman was baptized by a Presbyterian minister as an infant and given the name William at that time.

1888 photograph by Napoleon Sarony used in the second edition of Sherman's Memoirs, 1889.

* Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Written by Himself ( 1875 ), 2d ed.

* I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire ( September 1993 ), by P. N. Elrod, ( ISBN 0-7869-0175-6 )

* Memoirs of Robert-Houdin by M. Robert-Houdin