Journal Article10.2307/40114428
Aubrey' s Brief Lives
John M. Raines,Oliver Lawson Dick +1 more
- 01 Jan 1960
- Vol. 34, Iss: 1, pp 80
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TL;DR: A series of slanderous, intimate, shocking and defaming pen sketches of the lives of eminent people of the 17th century are described in this article, which are a heterogenous mixture of anecdote, first hand observation, folklore and erudition, an open-minded - if at times inaccurate - portrait of an age.
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Abstract: A series of slanderous, intimate, shocking and defaming pen sketches of the lives of eminent people of the 17th century. They are a heterogenous mixture of anecdote, first hand observation, folklore and erudition, an open-minded - if at times inaccurate - portrait of an age.
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