Appleton Biographies
Publisher: D. Appleton & Company; D. Appleton-Century; D. Appleton & Co., Inc.
Country: United States. Date: 1932-40.
Marlborough
by Sir John Fortescue
Published by New York, Appleton, 1932 (Appleton Biographies series)
Hardback. Dust wrapper.
APPLETON BIOGRAPHIES (D. APPLETON & CO.)
Series Note: In 1932 John W. Hiltman '"started... a series of Appleton Biographies -- compact lives of great men by distinguished writers. Among the first eight were John Buchan's Julius Caesar, Andre Maurois's Voltaire, Sacheverall Sitwell's Mozart, and Sir John Fortescue's Marlborough." [1]
Title / Author / Publication Date
Akbar - Sir Laurence Binyon. 1932.
St. Augustine - Rebecca West. 1933.
Sarah Bernhardt - Maurice Baring. 1934.
Robert the Bruce - Eric Linklater. 1934.
Julius Caesar - John Buchan. 1932.
Giaomo Casanova: Chevalier De Seingalt - Bonamy Dobree. 1933.
Charlemagne - Douglas Woodruff. 1935.
Coeur de Lion [= Richard I, the Great] - Clennell Wilkinson. 1933.
Queen Elizabeth - Mona Wilson. 1933.
Gibbon - G. M. Young. 1933.
Harun al Rashid - H. St. John Philby. 1934.
Henry VIII - Helen Simpson [Helen De Guerry Simpson]. 1934.
The King of Rome [= Napoléon François Charles Joseph Bonaparte, i.e. Napoleon II] - R. McNair Wilson. 1933.
T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) - Charles Edmonds. 1936.
Lenin - James Maxton. 1932.
Leonardo da Vinci - Clifford Bax. 1932.
Macaulay - Sir Arthur Bryant. 1933.
Marlborough - the Hon. Sir John Fortescue [Sir J. W. Fortescue]. 1932.
Mary Magdalen - Edith Olivier. 1935.
Mary, Queen of Scots - Eric Linklater. 1933.
Mozart - Sacheverell Sitwell. 1932.
St. Paul - Wilfred L. Knox. 1932.
Cecil Rhodes - William Plomer. 1933.
Robespierre - G. J. Renier [Gustaaf Johannes Renier]. 1936.
John Ruskin - David Larg [David Glass Larg]. 1933.
Franz Schubert - Ralph Bates. 1935.
Socrates - A. E. Taylor. 1933.
Mark Twain - Stephen Leacock. 1933.
Voltaire - Andre Maurois. Translated by Hamish Miles. 1932.
Wesley - James Laver. 1933.
William the Conqueror - Hilaire Belloc. 1934.
William of Orange - G. J. Renier [Gustaaf Johannes Renier]. 1933.
Oscar Wilde - G. J. Renier [Gustaaf Johannes Renier]. 1933.
Footnote
1. Book Publishing in America by Charles A. Madison. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1966, p. 183.
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