Author: John BrittonPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works
Author: John BrittonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S. Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, an Account of His Works, with Extracts from His Correspondence, Anecdotes of Some of His Contemporaries, and of the Times in which He Lived
Author: John BrittonMemoir of John Aubry Embracing His Autobiographical Sketches (etc.)
Author: John BrittonThe Autobiography of John Britton
Author: John BrittonThe Autobiography of John Britton, F.S.A. ... In Three Parts: Viz. Part I. Personal and Literary Memoir of the Author. Part II. Descriptive Account of His Literary Works. [By T. E. Jones.] Part III. Appendix.-Biographical, Topographical, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Etc. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]
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Author: John BrittonJohn Aubrey, My Own Life
Author: Ruth ScurrPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Born on the brink of the modern world, John Aubrey was witness to the great intellectual and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. He knew everyone of note in England—writers, philosophers, mathematicians, doctors, astrologers, lawyers, statesmen—and wrote about them all, leaving behind a great gift to posterity: a compilation of biographical information titled Brief Lives, which in a strikingly modest and radical way invented the art of biography. Aubrey was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1626. The reign of Queen Elizabeth and, earlier, the dissolution of the monasteries were not too far distant in memory during his boyhood. He lived through England’s Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the brief rule of Oliver Cromwell and his son, and the restoration of Charles II. Experiencing these constitutional crises and regime changes, Aubrey was impassioned by the preservation of traces of Ancient Britain, of English monuments, manor houses, monasteries, abbeys, and churches. He was a natural philosopher, an antiquary, a book collector, and a chronicler of the world around him and of the lives of his friends, both men and women. His method of writing was characteristic of his manner: modest, self-deprecating, witty, and concerned above all with the collection of facts that would otherwise be lost to time. John Aubrey, My Own Life is an extraordinary book about the first modern biographer, which reimagines what biography can be. This intimate diary of Aubrey’s days is composed of his own words, collected, collated, and enlarged upon by Ruth Scurr in an act of meticulous scholarship and daring imagination. Scurr’s biography honors and echoes Aubrey’s own innovations in the art of biography. Rather than subject his life to a conventional narrative, Scurr has collected the evidence—the remnants of a life from manuscripts, letters, and books—and arranged it chronologically, modernizing words and spellings, and adding explanations when necessary, with sources provided in the extensive endnotes. Here are Aubrey’s intricate drawings of Stonehenge and the ancient Avebury stones; Aubrey on Charles I’s execution (“On this day, the King was executed. It was bitter cold, so he wore two heavy shirts, lest he should shiver and seem afraid”); and Aubrey on antiquity (“Matters of antiquity are like the light after sunset—clear at first—but by and by crepusculum—the twilight—comes—then total darkness”). From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man.
Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works
Author: John BrittonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Autobiographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works
Author: John BrittonPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347176825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Memoir of John Aubrey, F.R.S., Embracing His Auto-Biographical Sketches, a Brief Review of His Personal and Literary Merits, and an Account of His Works
Author: John BrittonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368868144
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Author: John Britton