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Samuel Pepys. (Report from Europe).
Samuel Pepys was born in 1633, the son of a tailor. In 1656 he entered the household of Sir Edward Montagu, who later became first earl of Sandwich, and because of Montagu's patronage he was able to improve his lot considerably. Pepys became a civil servant and rose to secretary of the Admiralty; he also served as a member of Parliament and president of the Royal Society.
Apart from a brief spell in Tangier he lived most of his life in London and documented the capital of the mid-seventeenth century in his famous diary Between 1660 and 1669 he wrote in cipher about his everyday life as well as commenting on the political upheavals of the day Among the events he chronicled were the return of Charles H from exile in 1660 and the Great Fire of London in 1666. His diary was first published in 1825.
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- Magazine article from: Smithsonian ELLIOTT, CHARLES July 1, 2001 700+ words
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 13, 2006 700+ words
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Claire...rests on what he wrote. Samuel Pepys was born the son of a tailor...Because of his work in London he had sent detailed letters...1665; the Great Fire of London; the surprise appearance...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Westhauser, Karl E. March 22, 1994 700+ words
...middling sort," Adam Eyre and Samuel Pepys,(7) to examine how they participated...both his status and his marriage. Samuel Pepys shifted his sociability away from...homogeneous socially, while Pepys' London was urban and steeply hierarchical...
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- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly September 23, 2002 700+ words
...TOMALIN. Knopf, $30 (448p) ISBN 0-375-41143-7 * Samuel Pepys (1633--1703) is the most famous diarist in English letters...an unforgettable day-by-day description of Restoration London, with its disasters (the Great Plague of 1665, the Creat...
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- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly February 19, 2001 700+ words
...reader lives through the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London, the restoration of the king and the wars for regional supremacy...things as what "umble pie" really was. No academic read, Samuel Pepys will appeal to a broad, and broad-minded, audience. i6...
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- Magazine article from: Library Journal Cooksey, Thomas L. December 1, 2002 700+ words
...index. ISBN 0-37541143-7. $30. LIT The diaries of Samuel Pepys, with their vivid accounting of his public and private experience...offer an incomparable window into the world of 17th-century London, including the Restoration, the Plague, and the Great Fire...
Source: HighBeam Research, Samuel Pepys. (Report from Europe).