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Brief Lives (1669-1697) is a collection of short biographical sketches on famous British figures by author, antiquarian, and archaeologist John Aubrey. The work is significant for its unique style, a blend of facts--names, dates, family, important works--and personal anecdotes for which Aubrey combined his skills for research and conversation to compile. Unpublished during his lifetime, the text was pieced together from extensive handwritten m...

Somewhere between Plutarch and today's tabloid gossip, Brief Lives is a timeless and strange collection of biographies, tales, and hearsay concerning some of early-modern Britain's greatest thinkers and public figures. At times rigorous, at others scandalous, these vignettes are as informative as they are entertaining, humanizing such hallowed individuals as William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, and Sir Walter Raleigh.