[Gutenberg 4200] • The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
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- Authors
- Pepys, Samuel
- Tags
- samuel , great britain -- social life and customs -- 17th century -- sources , history , great britain -- history -- charles ii , classics , diarists -- great britain -- diaries , biography , cabinet officers -- great britain -- diaries , 1633-1703 -- diaries , pepys , 1660-1685 -- sources
- Date
- 1669-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.49 MB
- Lang
- en
This digital book includes an annotated bibliography of historic autobiographies and biographies (added 2011).
Published 1893
Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II.
His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.
The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the nineteenth century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. - Wikipedia.org