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John Aubrey: my own life
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Vintage, 2016
Ruth Scurr's biography is an act of scholarly imagination: a diary drawn from John Aubrey's own words, displaying his unique voice, dry wit, the irreverence...
Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Viking, 2002
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws...
Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2003
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws...
The Stuarts
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Hambledon and London, 2004
When in 1603 King James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth on the throne of England, as James I, the Stuarts became the first dynasty to rule the three...
John Milton: life, work, and thought
Hardback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
This biography of Milton is based on 40 years of original research, and takes account of new thinking about 17th-century England. He is seen here as flawed...
The adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st century
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Granta, 2015
Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' and...
Roger L'Estrange and the making of Restoration culture
Hardback. English.
Published
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008
Roger L'Estrange has become something of a leitmotif in the history and literature of the later-17th century. This book suggests that it is only when...
