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Brief Lives

By John Aubrey, Richard Barber, Richard Barber (Editor)
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By John Aubrey, Richard Barber, Richard Barber (Editor)
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John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of theperiod. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at theage of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, andfinally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on he led a sociable,rootless existence at the houses of friends — from Oxford and theMiddle Temple —pursuing the antiquarian studies which had alwaysobsessed him. At his death in 1697 ...

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