TY - BOOK AU - Aubrey,John AU - Clark,Andrew TI - Brief Lives, Vol. 2 AV - DA PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Great Britain -- Biography KW - Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Biography KW - Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Biography KW - Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_Lives; Release date is 2014-12-27; Produced by Richard Tonsing, Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Brief Lives, Vol. 2" by John Aubrey is a collection of short biographies written in the last decades of the 17th century. Aubrey gathered intimate portraits of prominent figures by seeking out people who knew them personally, creating vivid sketches rather than formal accounts. His subjects include Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hobbes, and Ben Jonson. Left unorganized at his death, the manuscripts reveal an unofficial, gossipy glimpse into the lives of extraordinary individuals, capturing colorful details that traditional biographies might miss. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47791 ER -