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Bookmark or Share- John Aubrey: a life surveyed | University of OxfordJohn Aubrey: a life surveyed. Oxford News blog. Pete Wilton. 14 Jul 2010. It isn’t everyone who has a set of holes named after them but then John Aubrey was one of the most intriguing characters to surface at Oxford University in the 17th Century.
- Brief Lives - WikipediaBrief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626–1697) in the last decades of the 17th century. Writing. Aubrey initially began collecting biographical material to assist the Oxford scholar Anthony Wood, who was working on his own collection of biographies.
- John Aubrey | Biographer, Antiquarian, Archaeologist | BritannicaJohn Aubrey (born March 12, 1626, Easton Piercy, Wiltshire, Eng.—died June 1697, Oxford) was an antiquarian and biographer, best known for his vivid, intimate, and sometimes acid sketches of his contemporaries. Educated at Oxford at Trinity College, he studied law in London at the Middle Temple.
- John Aubrey’s Brief Lives and Life-Writing - Oxford AcademicJohn Aubrey constructed an intimate and nonthreatening biographical persona, which allowed him to collect sensitive material about people in a politically turbulent period. He preserved documents and facts, but also anecdotes and “sayings,” as records of the human voice and the reputations of biographical subjects.
- John Aubrey and our golden age of life writing - The GuardianAubrey, the 17th-century gentleman and scholar who died virtually unpublished and unknown in 1697, was the inventor of modern life writing whose time has come again. H is for Hawk by Helen ...
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