University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958 Paper: 978-0-8229-6050-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-7517-5
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this work, the reader experiences the life of Samuel Pepys and his freinds, great and small, in seventeenth-century London. We see great men of war, business and letters, enhanced by Percival Hunt’s comprehensive bibliography.
REVIEWS
“Mr. Hunt [shows] the fun to be had by following single topics through the Diary.” —New York Times Book Review
“Its author knows his Pepys and his period well, and imparts to the reader some of his enjoyment of the Diary.” —The Year’s Work on English Studies
“The main effect is to send the reader back to the diary itself. . . . But several of the chapters have a value of their own, for example that on Pepys and William Penn. . . . Another interesting chapter is that on Queen Catherine of Braganza. . . . But perhaps the most useful chapter deals with the irrepressible Sire William Davenant and the performances which he contrived to stage at the height of the Commonwealth.” —Times Literary Supplement
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Contents
Dates
Substance in the Diary
Pepys's Day
A Principal Officer
Householder
St. Olave's Hart Street
Other Churches
The Abbey and St. Paul's
The Plague
The Great Fire
Prices
Pepys and William Penn
Pepys's Songs
Prose of the Diary
Sir William Davenant
Catherine of Braganza
Pepys at the Queen's Chapel
"My great letter of reproof"
Morality
One Value of the Diary to Pepys
Two Dinners
Pepys and Elizabeth Pepys
Envoy
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