In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.” During ...

SAMUELS PEPYS : THE YEARS of PERIL —Arthur Bryant—Macmillan ($3.50). Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and developed by a ...

The Peek with Samuel Pepys is a scripted, historical fiction comedy podcast created by Lee Melillo. Loosely inspired by the writings of famed British diarist Samuel Pepys, it explores the origins of ...

LONDON — A British academic says she has uncovered new details about the life of a famous literary paramour: the 17-year-old servant caught consorting with diarist Samuel Pepys. Pepys’ journal ...

Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, Habit Noir (evening wear), etching c. 1670. A print collected by Samuel Pepys showing a fashionable elite Frenchman proudly wearing lace cuffs and ribbons. A collection of ...

IN Mr. Bradford’s practice of the art of ‘psychography’ he has established a method of biography which is very much his own. It is the method of the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic: it has much ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...