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Brief lives : a modern English version by Aubrey, John is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-century England 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 169
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Aubrey, John
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781843831129
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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