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John Aubrey : my own life / Ruth Scurr. by Scurr, Ruth. New York Review of Books, [2015] Call #: 942.06 A895s Subjects Aubrey, John, 1626-1697 -- Correspondence.   Aubrey, John, 1626-1697 -- Diaries.   Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.   Antiquarians -- England -- Biography.   Historians -- England -- Biography.   Biographers -- England -- Biography. Series New York Review book. ISBN:  9781681370422 (hc.) Description:  xxiv, 518 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes:  Originally published: 2015. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-487) and index. Contents:  England's collector -- Wiltshire -- Oxford -- War -- Learning -- Restoration -- Stone, water, fire -- Work -- Surrey -- Penury -- The popish plot -- Brief lives -- More lives and deaths -- Manuscripts -- Transcriptions -- Crepusculum -- Aubrey's afterlife. Summary:  "John Aubry did not leave a diary. This biography is written in the form that diary might have taken. 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. This 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. 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, and 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") From the darkness, Scurr has wrested a vibrant, intimate account of the life of an ingenious man."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 942.06 A895s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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