What is Brief Lives?
{{italic title}} '''''Brief Lives''''' is a [[book]] by [[John Aubrey]]. It’s a collection of [[biographies]] that Aubrey wrote about, among others, [[Francis Bacon]], [[Robert Boyle]], [[John Dee]], [[Thomas Browne]], Sir [[Walter Raleigh]], [[Edmund Halley]], [[Ben Jonson]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[William Petty]] and [[William Shakespeare]]. Aubrey wrote the book while collecting information for a [[scholar]] named [[Anthony Wood]]. {{literature-stub}} [[Category:Biographies (books)]] [[Category:17th-century books]] [[Category:1690s books]]