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Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys  Vol  9

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 9 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Bell & Hyman Limited, 1971.

Book The Soul of Samuel Pepys

Download or read book The Soul of Samuel Pepys written by Gamaliel Bradford and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1924 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coventrys of Croome

Download or read book The Coventrys of Croome written by Catherine Gordon and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this well-researched account of the Coventry family since Sir Thomas, an Elizabethan lawyer, bought Croome in the 16th century, Dr. Gordon charts their rise to Baron Coventry then, by 1697, Earl of Coventry. The author describes the transformation of Croome by the 6th Earl, who employed âe~Capabilityâe(tm) Brown and Robert Adam to create a country seat of elegance and beauty, now being restored by the National Trust. Widely acknowledged for its significance in the evolution of landscape design, Croome Park is the most important legacy of this celebrated family. Published in association with The National Trust.

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys  Vol  10

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 10 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Bell & Hyman Limited, 1983.

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys  Vol  6

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 6 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1655 he married, and the following year he entered the household of his cousin Admiral Edward Montagu. In 1660 he began writing his Diary. With his unquenchable joy in life and his endless curiosity, Pepys gave a vivid first-hand account of the 1660s -- the colourful years of the Restoration, the Plague and the Great Fire of London -- interwoven with a richly diverting record of his eventful private and domestic life. After just ten years, in May 1669, he closed his Diary, never realizing the historical and literary importance it would attain.

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys  Vol  11

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 11 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions—until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys’s original as possible.

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys  Vol  8

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 8 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions—until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys’s original as possible.

Book Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived in

Download or read book Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived in written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys  Vol  1

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Vol 1 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London - Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. Along with lively descriptions of his socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going & music-making. Unequaled for its frankness, high spirits & sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece & a marvelous portrait of 17th-century life. Acclaimed by 'The Times' as "one of the glories of contemporary English publishing" and by Sir Arthur Bryant as "complete perfection", the Latham and Matthews edition remains the authoritative text and provides the source for this magnificent Folio Society publication.

Book The Parish of St  James  Westminster

Download or read book The Parish of St James Westminster written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Protestantism and Patriotism

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  • Author : Steven C. A. Pincus
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-05-09
  • ISBN : 9780521893688
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Protestantism and Patriotism written by Steven C. A. Pincus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars and the ideological contexts in which they were fought.

Book Survey of London

Download or read book Survey of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Boundaries

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  • Author : Linda Phyllis Austern
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-13
  • ISBN : 0253024978
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Beyond Boundaries written by Linda Phyllis Austern and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern England, reconsidering previously held ideas about the boundaries between locations of musical performance and practice.

Book Butcher  Baker  Candlestick Maker

Download or read book Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker written by Hazel Forsyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazel Forsyth delvesin to never-before-studied primary sources to shed light on thedramatic aftermath of the disaster and reveal the very personalstories of the people who pieced their lives together in its wake. Bydocumenting the tradesmen, from apothecaries and chandlers toshoemakers and watchmakers, Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Makertells a story of loss and resilience and illuminates how the citywe know today rose from the ashes. Beautifully illustrated withexquisite fabrics, candle snuffers and other fascinating imagesassociated with the trades of the time, we are treated to a visualfeast, an evocative reminder of life before and after the Great Fire.

Book Speech  Print and Decorum in Britain  1600  1750

Download or read book Speech Print and Decorum in Britain 1600 1750 written by Elspeth Jajdelska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, readership, the material text and performance. Jajdelska's ambitious array of sources includes letters, diaries, paratexts and genres from cookery books to philosophical discourses. She looks at authors ranging from John Donne to Jonathan Swift, alongside the writings of anonymous merchants, apothecaries and romance authors. Jajdelska argues that Renaissance readers were likely to approach written and printed documents less as utterances in their own right and more as representations of past speech or as scripts for future speech. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, however, some readers were treating books as proxies for the author's speech, rather than as representations of it. These adjustments in the way speech and print were understood had implications for changes in decorum as the inhibitions placed on lower-ranking authors in the Renaissance gave way to increasingly open social networks at the start of the eighteenth century. As a result, authors from the lower ranks could now publish on topics formerly reserved for the more privileged. While this apparently egalitarian development did not result in imagined communities that transcended class, readers of all ranks did encounter new models of reading and writing and were empowered to engage legitimately in the gentlemanly criticism that had once been the reserve of the cultural elites. Shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) book prize 2018