[f. AUTO- + BIOGRAPHY. Neither this nor any of its derivatives are in Todd, 1818; only Autobiography in Craig, 1847.] The writing of one’s own history; the story of one’s life written by himself.
1809. Southey, in Q. Rev., I. 283. This very amusing and unique specimen of autobiography.
1828. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 154. What would we give for such an Autobiography of Shakspeare.
1859. B. Powell, Ord. Nat., 252. Geology (as Sir C. Lyell has so happily expressed it) is ‘the autobiography of the earth.’
