His contemporary John Evelyn remembered him as 'universally beloved, hospitable, generous, learned in many things'. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1684 and later served as President. In 1672 he was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, an appointment he held with one interruption of four years at the end of Charles II's reign until the Glorious Revolution when he retired from public life.Īs well as being one of the most important civil servants of his age, he was a widely cultivated man, taking a learned interest in books, music, the theatre, and science. In 1669, the year in which he closed his diary, his wife died. It includes the vibrant characters of the day such as the diarist himself and actress Nell Gwynne, and features a dazzling and gripping finale during the Great Fire Of London. The diary of Elizabeth Pepys by Elizabeth Pepys, 1991, Grafton edition, in English The diary of Elizabeth Pepys (1991 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. And this abridged volume has a brilliant introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson. Based on events depicted in the famous Diary of Samuel Pepys, Entertaining Mr Pepys brings London in the 17th Century to life. In 1660 he became the Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board (the same year in which he began his diary). Pepys diary is always an insight into the lives of the wealthy and well connected. In 1655 he married and in the following year entered the household of his cousin Admiral Edward Montagu.
Paul's School, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. Samuel Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor. Pepys, while he was quick to notice mens books, did not make a point of noting womens closet book collections yet Elizabeths fashionable books (which.
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