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Brief Lives

Brief Lives

Aubrey, John
Barber, Richard
Barber, Richard

Paperback

Series: First Person Singular

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresBritish History

ISBN10: 1843831120
ISBN13: 9781843831129
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Oct 14 2004
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
Full edition in modern spelling of Aubrey's racy portraits of greatfigures of 16-17c England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton.

John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at the age of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on he led a sociable, rootless existence at the houses of friends - from Oxford and the Middle Temple -pursuing the antiquarian studies which had always obsessed him. At his death in 1697 he left a mass of notes and manuscripts, among them the material for Brief Lives. He never managed to put even a single life into logical order; all we have are the raw materials, scribbled down - tumultuously as they occurred to my thoughts'.

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