Sample lives
Below are a few sample biographical notes from EE, to give you a feel for what is inside. Note that this represents only a tiny selection of the biographical material inside EE, where each biography comes with links to the person's correspondents and their letters, and many have further birth and death details, cross-links to other figures in EE, and links to biographies in other scholarly resources…
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), American president
Charlotte Elisabeth Aïssé (1694–1733), Circassian slave and social celebrity
Hassuna D'Ghies (b. c. 1792), Libyan government minister
János Fekete, count of Galànta (1741–1803), Hungarian aristocrat
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss author and philosopher
John Frederick Sackville, 3rd duke of Dorset (1745–1799), English courtier and cricketer
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780), African slave, shopkeeper and author
Benjamin West (1738–1820), American painter