19th-century memoirists

The list 19th-century memoirists includes P. T. Barnum, Ulysses S. Grant, James Buchanan, Frederick Douglass and Marie D'Agoult. The list consists of 231 members and 10 sublists.

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19th-century Danish memoirists
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19th-century diarists
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19th-century American memoirists
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19th-century French memoirists
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19th-century British memoirists
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19th-century Irish memoirists
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19th-century Canadian memoirists
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19th-century memoirists from the Russian Empire
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19th-century Romanian memoirists
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19th-century German memoirists
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1.

James Buchanan

President of the United States from 1857 to 1861

Overview: James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States (1857–1861). He previously served as Secretary of State ...

Date of birth: 23 April 1791

Date of death: 1 June 1868

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

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Jacksonian United States senators from Pennsylvania 4T

Burials at Woodward Hill Cemetery 11T

American white supremacist politicians 74T
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P. T. Barnum

American politician

Overview: Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician, and businessman, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017) ...

Date of birth: 5 July 1810

Date of death: 7 April 1891

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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Christian abolitionists 358T

Businesspeople from Bridgeport, Connecticut 23T

Circus owners 64T
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Ulysses S. Grant

American soldier and politician who was elected the 18th President of the United States

Overview: Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before his p ...

Date of birth: 27 April 1822

Date of death: 23 July 1885

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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19th-century presidents of the United States 23T

Commanding Generals of the United States Army 20T

19th-century American male writers 904T
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Alexandre Dumas

French author

Overview: Alexandre Dumas (, ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where père is French for 'father', thus 'the elder/senior'), was a French writer ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1802

Date of death: 5 December 1870

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Dumas family 5T

French writers exiled in Belgium 2T

Writers from Hauts-de-France 15T
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August Strindberg

Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)

Overview: Johan August Strindberg (, 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, S ...

Date of birth: 22 January 1849

Date of death: 14 May 1912

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: Swedish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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European writers in French 16T

Swedish satirists 13T

19th-century alchemists 11T
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Julia Grant

First Lady of the United States

Overview: Julia Boggs Grant (née Dent; January 26, 1826 – December 14, 1902) was the First Lady of the United States and wife of Ulysses S. Grant. Her time as First Lady marked a turning point in her life, when ...

Date of birth: 26 January 1826

Date of death: 14 December 1902

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: First Lady

Gender: Female

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Daughters of the American Revolution people 111T

A Woman of the Century 883T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
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William Tecumseh Sherman

United States Army general (1820–1891)

Overview: William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65) ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1820

Date of death: 14 February 1891

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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William Tecumseh Sherman 14T

Commanding Generals of the United States Army 20T

Sherman family (U.S.) 12T
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Frederick Douglass

American abolitionist

Overview: Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; c. – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland ...

Date of birth: 14 February 1818

Date of death: 20 February 1895

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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People from Anacostia 2T

Fugitive American slaves that reached Canada 8T

African-American expatriates in the United Kingdom 10T
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Marie D'Agoult

French novelist

Overview: Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult (31 December 1805 – 5 March 1876), was a Franco-German romantic author and historian, known also by her pen name, Daniel Stern.

Date of birth: 31 December 1805

Date of death: 5 March 1876

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

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French women memoirists 58T

Pseudonymous women writers 644T

Women memoirists 1,131T
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Charles Tyng

Overview: Charles Tyng (August 24, 1801 – June 20, 1879) was a New England sea captain and merchant, notable for a memoir written near the end of his life.

Date of birth: 24 August 1801

Date of death: 20 June 1879

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Sailor

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Elizabeth Keckly

American inventor, activist, professional dressmaker and writer (1818–1907)

Overview: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the ...

Date of birth: 1 February 1818

Date of death: 1 May 1907

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Fashion Designer

Gender: Female

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19th-century American memoirists 91T

American women fashion designers 327T

19th-century American businesswomen 132T
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Charles Warren Stoddard

American writer

Overview: Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843 – April 23, 1909) was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life.

Date of birth: 7 August 1843

Date of death: 23 April 1909

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Writers from Rochester, New York 110T

19th-century American male writers 904T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Harriette Wilson

British courtesan

Overview: Harriette Wilson (2 February 1786 – 10 March 1845) is the author of The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself (1825). Wilson was a famed British Regency courtesan who became the mistress of ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1786

Date of death: 10 March 1845

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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British women memoirists 141T

Women memoirists 1,131T

English courtesans 30T
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

United States author and lawyer

Overview: Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American ...

Date of birth: 1 August 1815

Date of death: 6 January 1882

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Infectious disease deaths in Lazio 23T

Harvard College alumni 2,012T

Abolitionists from Boston 63T
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Wilkie Collins

British writer

Overview: William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern ...

Date of birth: 8 January 1824

Date of death: 23 September 1889

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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19th-century British short story writers 74T

19th-century British dramatists and playwrights 64T

English male short story writers 194T
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Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

Overview: Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he repr ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1808

Date of death: 6 December 1889

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

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Episcopalians from Kentucky 1T

19th-century United States Army personnel 7T

American white supremacist politicians 74T
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Belle Boyd

American Confederate spy

Overview: Isabella Maria Boyd (May 9, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd (or as Cleopatra of the Secession or Siren of the Shenandoah), was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated ...

Date of birth: 9 May 1844

Date of death: 11 June 1900

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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People from Front Royal, Virginia 23T

American women memoirists 620T

American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
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Alphonse Daudet

writer

Overview: Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet (Mastani) and father of Edmée Daudet, and writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.

Date of birth: 13 May 1840

Date of death: 16 December 1897

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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19th-century letter writers 30T

19th-century short story writers 110T

Alphonse Daudet 6T
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Sophie Bawr

Composer and playwright

Overview: Baroness Sophie de Bawr (8 October 1773 – 31 December 1860), born Alexandrine-Sophie Goury de Champgrand, was a French writer, playwright and composer, also known as "Comtesse de Saint-Simon", "Baronne ...

Date of birth: 8 October 1773

Date of death: 31 December 1860

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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18th-century memoirists 22T

Female musical theatre composers 9T

French women memoirists 58T
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Jubal Anderson Early

American lawyer, politician and military officer (1816–1894)

Overview: Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a Virginia lawyer and politician who became a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Trained at the United States Military Academy ...

Date of birth: 3 November 1816

Date of death: 2 March 1894

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Jubal A. Early 5T

Confederate expatriates 21T

Lost Cause of the Confederacy 51T