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SAMUEL PEPYS' LONDON CHRONICLES : THE CANDID DIARIST PORTRAYS THE RAVAGES OF FIRE AND PLAGUE, THE BAWDY COURT OF CHARLES II, AND HIS OWN ROMPS WITH MAIDS.
In the year 1703, an elderly gentleman named Samuel Pepys (pronounced "peeps") passed away in the London suburb of Clapham. He was wealthy, and a bachelor since his wife had died more than 30 years before. Known to his numerous friends as an amiable and competent connoisseur of music and books, fond of science (but hardly skilled in it), he had once served as a naval administrator. For more than a decade, however, he had been out of office, spending his time assembling materials for a naval history he meant to write (but never did) and performing charitable works. A close acquaintance, mourning him, called him "a very worthy, Industrious & curious person."
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- History Today Pierce, Patricia November 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Samuel Pepys: A Life. .(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Albion McClain, Molly December 22, 2002 700+ words
Stephen Coote. SAMUEL PEPYS: A LIFE. New York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. xiii, 386. $27...appear in second hand bookshops alongside Arthur Bryant's trilogy, Samuel Pepys (1933-39). Like his predecessor, Coote has produced a predictable...
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- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Taylor, Roberta April 1, 2003 700+ words
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin...ego of whom alone he cared to write'. Pepys' 'ego' led him to write his diary and his fame rests on what he wrote. Samuel Pepys was born the son of a tailor and educated...
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- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1996 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Samuel Pepys The British naval officer Samuel Pepys is famed for his diary, begun in 1660, which...officers. British. The British naval officer Samuel Pepys is famed for his diary, begun in 1660, which...
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- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Dawson, Mark S. August 1, 2002 700+ words
...Coote ventures insight into both Samuel Pepys and his diary. If biography aims...hopeful note when he observes that Pepys's "identity as a man was firmly...Providing a ready synthesis of Pepys's involvement in main events of...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Kramer, Miriam July 1, 2003 700+ words
Samuel Pepys was born in 1633, the son of a tailor...commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Pepys's death. At the National Portrait Gallery...a display entitled Restoration Lives. Samuel Pepys and His Circle is on view until September...
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- Magazine article from: New Criterion Allen, Brooke January 1, 2003 700+ words
Samuel Pepys's Diary (1660-1669) is an extraordinary...but its most extraordinary aspect is that Pepys seems to have had no model for it. In terms...interests of philosophical inquiry, which Pepys did not--and in any case Pepys had not...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor December 18, 2003 700+ words
...Phil Gyford has taken The Diary of Samuel Pepys -a diary that spans 10 years of...created for public consumption, Pepys never expected anyone to read his...of history texts. The Diary of Samuel Pepys can be found at http://www...
