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12 de mai. de 2024 · Pepys’ loyalty and hard work were rewarded after the Diary in 1673 when he was made Secretary to the Admiralty. According to Arthur Bryant, Pepys was to become “The Saviour of the Navy” and ended his career as the British equivalent of the French Secretary of State for Marine Affairs, answerable only to the King [James II].
14 de mai. de 2024 · John Evelyn FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society . John Evelyn's diary, or memoir, spanned the period of his adult life from 1640, when he was a student, to 1706, the year he ...
Há 6 dias · Signature. Anne Hyde (12 March 1637 – 31 March 1671) [2] [a] was the first wife of James, Duke of York, who later became King James II and VII. Anne was the daughter of a member of the English gentry— Edward Hyde (later created Earl of Clarendon)—and met her future husband when they were both living in exile in the Netherlands.
20 de mai. de 2024 · Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France, she married King Henry V of England [1] and was the mother of King Henry VI. [a] Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and ...
24 de mai. de 2024 · ^ Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys – the Unequalled Self Penguin Books edition, 2003, p. 69. ^ Pepys's Diary 17 March 1660. ^ Pepys's Diary 10 July 1660. ^ See footnote to the Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys, entry for 1 July 1660. ^ John Paul Russo, The Future Without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society (2005), p. 90. ^ Roper 1967, p ...
23 de mai. de 2024 · Pepys's Attitudes Toward Downing "What is certain is that Pepys's new boss was an ogre who commanded his clerk's hatred and admiration in equal measure, for George Downing showed Pepys how hard, how vain and how ruthless a successful man of affairs could be," writes Stephen Cootes in his "Samuel Pepys: A Life" (2000; p. 26).
Há 2 dias · Tragedy. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (original spelling: 'Tis Pitty Shee's a Who [ o] re) is a tragedy written by John Ford. [1] It was first performed c. 1626 [1] or between 1629 and 1633, [2] by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Richard Collins.
