Full 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 the houses of
friends - from Oxford and the Middle Temple -pursuing the
antiquarian studies which had always obsessed him. At his death in
1697 he left a mass of notes and manuscripts, among them the
material for Brief Lives. He never managed to put even a single
life into logical order; all we have are the raw materials,
scribbled down -`tumultuously as they occurred to my thoughts'.
With this full, modern English edition, which reproduces Aubrey's
words as closely as possible, Richard Barber introduces us to
Aubrey and his world, tells how the Lives came into being and
enables many new readers to enjoy this eccentric masterpiece.
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