Brief Lives: Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 - Volume II (I to V)

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Publisher	Cosimo Classics
ISBN 10	1646792777
Book Format	Paperback
Book Description	“Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living.” —John AubreyBrief Lives—Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 is a collection of short, colorful, gossipy biographies written by John Aubrey in the last part of the 17th century. It took two centuries, however, before Aubrey received real recognition as a great biographer. It was in 1898 that Reverend Andrew Clark (1856–1922), a minister and editor, edited the transcript of Brief Lives that established Aubrey’s name as the man who invented biography.Clark’s edition was published in two volumes: Volume I from letters A to H and Volume II from I to V, with biographies of distinguished 17th-century Englishmen such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne, Walter Harvey, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Shakespeare.
Publication Date	5 August 2020

ISBN 13	9781646792771
Author	John Aubrey
Language	English
About the Author	JOHN AUBREY (1880-1932), was an English antiquarian and biographer. He was educated at Oxford and studied law at the Middle Temple in London. Due to his charm, he became befriended with many of the most celebrated scientists, writers, politicians and aristocrats of his time. His main writings are: Monumenta Britannica, a collection of archaeological material, and Brief Lives, a collection of biographies.
Number of Pages	384 pages

Brief Lives: Chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the Years 1669 & 1696 - Volume II (I to V)

127.00