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 ...

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. By Margaret Willes. Yale University Press; 282 pages; $27.50 and £20. SAMUEL PEPYS and John Evelyn were among the most determinedly inquisitive ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I first encountered the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1958, when I was 10. It is the book that has informed – I might almost say "defined" ...

THE CONVERSATION, via AP — 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 ...

Academic Michael Hunter has won the 2011 Samuel Pepys Award for his "fascinating" biography of 17th-century scientist Robert Boyle. Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale) was awarded the £2,000 prize ...

The fate of famous diarist Samuel Pepys's young mistress has been unearthed by new research. A lecturer at Leicester University has revealed Pepys and his mistress Deb Willet kept in contact after she ...

This boook is a great achievement and a huge pleasure. The "unequalled self" of the subtitle is from an essay by Robert Louis Stevenson commending the "unflinching sincerity" of self-disclosure in ...