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Há 2 dias · Samuel Pepys‘ diary is a remarkable primary source document that has provided historians with an unparalleled glimpse into life in 17th century England. Kept daily from 1660 to 1669, Pepys‘ diary records not just the most intimate details of his personal life, but also eyewitness accounts of major historical events like the Great Plague of 1665, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, and the Great ...
Há 4 dias · Samuel Pepys, who wrote the oldest known comments on the play, found A Midsummer Night's Dream to be "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life". Dorothea Kehler has attempted to trace the criticism of the work through the centuries.
Há 5 dias · York House in the Strand in London was one of a string of mansions which once stood along the route from the City of London to the royal court at Westminster. It was built as the London home of the Bishops of Norwich not later than 1237. At the time of the Diary it was owned by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
Há 3 dias · Several years elapsed before the house (or houses, for the building fronting Villiers Street was afterwards separated from No. 14, Buckingham Street) was rebuilt. No. 14 next appears in the ratebooks in 1688, when Samuel Pepys is shown in occupation. He probably took possession in March of that year (see p. 70).
Há 4 dias · Samuel Pepys, Diary, 25 June 1666. 176 . L.C.C.R.O., Hackney parish registers, register of baptisms, marriages and burials 1653–85, 10 June 1664 and 20 July 1665.
Há 2 dias · Claire Tomalin is rightly celebrated for her doorstep-sized (but never dull for a moment) biographies of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen. But the first book of hers that I read was the diminutive Shelley and His World . I was hooked on biography (and Tomalin’s writing) for life after that.
Há 4 dias · Pepys's mentions of Downing in the diary are "almost always with some expression of dislike," Henry B. Wheatley says in "Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In" (1880). Pepys thought Downing was niggardly, sometimes to ridiculous lengths, Wheatley wrote.
