Brief Lives - John Aubrey- Edited by Richard Barber - 2009 - The Boydell Press

Brief Lives\nby John Aubrey\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John Aubrey\nTitle: Brief Lives\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Dictionaries of biography\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd\nPublication year: 2004\nISBN-13: 9781843831129\nISBN-10: 1843831120\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFull 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 th.