The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn / Margaret Willes.

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"Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn vividly reveal in their diaries and correspondence the world of Restoration England. Now Margaret Willes uses the analogy of a cabinet of curiosities to provide a detailed account not only of the two friends but also of their times. Pepys was down to earth and realistic...

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Main Author: Willes, Margaret (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Pepys, Samuel, > 1633-1703 > Friends and associates.
Evelyn, John, > 1620-1706 > Friends and associates.
Evelyn, John, > 1620-1706.
Pepys, Samuel, > 1633-1703.
Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714 > Biography.
Great Britain > Court and courtiers > Biography.
Cabinet officers > Great Britain > Biography.
Diarists > Great Britain > Biography.
Cabinet officers.
Courts and courtiers.
Diarists.
Friendship.
Great Britain.
1603-1714
History.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Physical Description:xx, 282 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.