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Last November, New York Review Books published Ruth Scurr\u2019s <\/em>John Aubrey: My Own Life<\/a>.\u00a0Aubrey, who died in 1697, is remembered\u00a0for\u00a0his <\/em>Brief Lives, a collection of short biographies with a candor and color that enlarged the possibilities of the genre. Scurr has assembled an \u201cautobiography\u201d for Aubrey from remnants of his\u00a0letters, manuscripts, and books, setting his sensitivities against the turmoil of Restoration-era England. He emerges as an empathetic, surprisingly modern figure.\u00a0<\/em>Below, Lucas Adams illustrates\u00a0some of his favorite entries from<\/em>\u00a0My Own Life.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lucas Adams is an editor at New York Review Comics. See more of his work here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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