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'Light, ingenious, inspiring, a book to reread and cherish' Hilary Mantel 'A delight...the book I would take with me to a desert island' David Aaronovitch I was born about sun rising in my maternal grandfathers bedchamber on 12th March 1626. St. Gregorys Day, very sickly, likely to die. John Aubrey loved England. From an early age, he saw his England slipping away and, against extraordinary odds, committed himself to preserving for posterity what remained of it in books, monuments and life stories. His Brief Lives would redefine the art of biography yet he published only one rushed, botched book in his lifetime and died fearing his name and achievements would be forgotten. Ruth Scurrs biography is an act of scholarly imagination: a diary drawn from John Aubreys own words, displaying his unique voice, dry wit, the irreverence and drama of a literary pioneer. Aubrey saw himself modestly as a collector of a vanishing past, a scurvy antiquary. But he was also one of the pioneers of modern writing, a journalist before the age of journalism, who witnessed the Civil War and the Great Fire of London in the company of some of the influential men and women, high and low, whose lives he wo

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Author

Scurr, Ruth, author

Publisher

Chatto & Windus Ltd.

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701179076

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.14 / 5 (87 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14