Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the most famous diarist in English letters. From 1660 t0 1669, he penned an unforgettable day-by-day description of Restoration London, with its disasters (the Great Plague ...

Claire Tomalin, biographer of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft, has taken the 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys as her latest subject. The Bookseller Editorial Team Claire Tomalin, biographer of ...

In July 2020, a quote ostensibly written in 1665 by Samuel Pepys, dubbed the world's greatest diarist by some, started to circulate on social media. The passage lamented how "gadabouts" (defined by ...

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) kept his celebrated diary for only nine years, from 1660-1669, starting when he was 26. Written in shorthand -- with the racier episodes related in a potpourri of languages ...

Sei Shonagon (Painting by Uemura Shoen, 1917-18. Public domain) By Damian Flanagan A few weeks ago, I attended a rather unusual concert in Cambridge, England. All the pieces of music dated from the ...

”It was an unpromising moment to embark on a record of his daily activities,” wryly observes Claire Tomalin in her brilliant new biography, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, of the man whose diaries ...