The Curious World Of Samuel Pepys And John Evelyn

Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Cabinet officers
ISBN : 9780300221398

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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes Pdf

Introduction: curiouser and curiouser -- 'The world do not grow old at all' -- Two worlds -- The decade of the diaries -- Prodigious revolutions -- 'Even private families are ... the best of governments' -- Private lives -- 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure' -- Take nobody's word for it -- Pleasure above all things -- Hortulan affairs -- Exotic extravagances -- The affection which we have to books -- Epilogue: and so to bed -- Appendix: the true domestick intelligence

Author : Gillian Darley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300112270

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John Evelyn by Gillian Darley Pdf

"This new biography ... is the first to make full use of Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library in 1995. This crucial source evokes a broader and richer picture of Evelyn, his life and his friendships, than permitted by his own celebrated diaries."--Dust jacket.

Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300231724

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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes Pdf

An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.

Author : Kate Loveman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198732686

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Samuel Pepys and His Books by Kate Loveman Pdf

Uses Pepys's surviving papers to examine reading practices, book collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century.

Author : John Evelyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : OXFORD:590348051

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The diary of John Evelyn by John Evelyn Pdf

Author : J. D. Davies
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783830220

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Pepys's Navy by J. D. Davies Pdf

An extensively illustrated reference covering four tumultuous decades that gave birth to the modern Royal Navy. Winner of the Samuel Pepys Prize and Latham Medal This reference book describes every aspect of the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era that witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in essence the birth of today’s Royal Navy. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems for construction and administration, is one of the most significant players, and the navy that was, by 1690, ready for a century of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless work. This major reference for historians, naval enthusiasts, and, anyone with an interest in this colorful era of the seventeenth century covers: naval administration ship types and shipbuilding naval recruitment and crews seamanship and gunnery shipboard life dockyards and bases the foreign navies of the period the three major wars fought against the Dutch in the Channel and the North Sea “Davies writes clearly, knows his subject extremely well, organizes the material effectively, and covers each topic thoroughly . . . there’s some new piece of revelatory detail on pretty much every page. If you’re at all interested in seventeenth century sailing ships—especially English ships—this is a truly fascinating and rewarding book.” —Corsairs and Captives

Author : Geoffrey Pimm
Publisher : Pen & Sword History
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526717298

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The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys by Geoffrey Pimm Pdf

Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is the fact that he was a serial sexual offender by modern standards; a voyeur, a groper and a rapist. Set against the London society of Charles II's restoration, and extensively using Pepys' own words, this book concerns his numerous extramarital affairs, often using his professional status and position of influence to advance the careers of his subordinates, in return for the sexual favors of their wives. With his own very frank descriptions, translated from the strange mix of languages and the seventeenth century shorthand he used to camouflage the content, the reader witnesses in often very graphic detail how Pepys set about achieving his lascivious objectives - on occasion resorting to physical force where persuasion or bribery failed. Whether she be wife, daughter, mother or humble maidservant, no woman was safe from his rapacious sexual appetite. This book shows the reader a little known, dark and sometimes very disturbing aspect of Samuel Pepys' character, one which even in his own day, he would not have wanted to be publicly aired.

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780238708

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John Evelyn by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

The great English writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620–1706) kept a diary all his life. Today, this diary is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultural, religious, and political life in seventeenth-century England. Evelyn’s work is often overshadowed by the literary contributions of his contemporary and friend, Samuel Pepys. This new biography changes that. John Dixon Hunt takes a fresh look at the life and work of one of England’s greatest diarists, focusing particularly on Evelyn’s “domesticity.” The book explores Evelyn’s life at home, and perhaps even more importantly, his domestication of foreign ideas and practices in England. During the English Civil Wars, Evelyn traveled extensively throughout Europe, taking in ideas on the management of estate design while abroad to apply them in England. Evelyn’s greatest accomplishment was the import of European garden art to the UK, a feat Hunt puts into context alongside a range of Evelyn’s social and ethical thinking. Illustrated with visual material from Evelyn’s time and from his own pen, the book is an ideal introduction to a hugely important figure in the shaping of early modern Britain.

Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300258820

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London and the Seventeenth Century by Margarette Lincoln Pdf

The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center stage. In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. Lincoln looks at how religious, political, and financial tensions were fomented by commercial ambition, expansion, and hardship. In addition to events at court and parliament, she evokes the remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners. Through their eyes, we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to become a great maritime power with London at its heart—the greatest city of its time.

Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108021524

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Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In by Henry Benjamin Wheatley Pdf

A detailed biography of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) exploring the historical context of his life and first published in 1880.

Author : Irene Taylor,Alan Taylor
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781838852924

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The Assassin's Cloak by Irene Taylor,Alan Taylor Pdf

'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241295779

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The Pursuit of Power by Richard J. Evans Pdf

ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman 'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times A masterpiece which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change. The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic transformation. The book aims to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes. It was a time where what was seen as modern with amazing speed appeared old-fashioned, where huge cities sprang up in a generation, new European countries were created and where, for the first time, humans could communicate almost instantly over thousands of miles. In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book breaks new ground by showing how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe. Richard Evans explores fully the revolutions, empire-building and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but the book is about so much more, whether it is illness, serfdom, religion or philosophy. The Pursuit of Power is a work by a historian at the height of his powers: essential for anyone trying to understand Europe, then or now.

Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639363216

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Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester by Nigel Pickford Pdf

A true story of royal intrigue—with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist—as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate carrying James and his entourage sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not? Religious and political tensions were rife in the years leading up to the wreck of the Gloucester. James was a Catholic, as was his wife, and there was a large constituency who wished them dead. Plots and conspiracies abounded. The Royal Navy was itself in disarray, badly equipped and poorly organised. Could someone on board be to blame for the sinking, either from malice or incompetence? Nigel Pickford’s compelling account of the catastrophe draws on a richness of historical material including letters, diaries and ships’ logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain.

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1011076098

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The Diary Of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys Pdf

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Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300163827

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The Making of the English Gardener by Margaret Willes Pdf

The people and publications at the root of a national obsession