He was born in London, above the shop, just off Fleet Street, in Salisbury Court, where his father John Peps ran a tailoring business, one of many serving the lawyers living in the area.
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Samuel Pepys
the unequalled self
by Claire Tomalin
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Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. This diary lies at the heart of Claire Tomalin's biography. Yet the use she makes of it - and of other hitherto unexamined material - is startlingly fresh and original. Within and beyond the narrative of Pepys's extraordinary career, she explores his inner life - his relations with women, his fears and ambitions, his political shifts, his agonies and his delights.
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Authors, English, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Cabinet officers, Diarists, English Authors, English diaries, Great Britain, Great Britain. Royal Navy, History, History and criticism, Nonfiction, Officials and employees, Social life and customs, Navy, Armed Forces, Manners and customs, Statesmen, Pepys, samuel, 1633-1703, Cabinet officers, great britain, Authors, biography, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714, Great britain, social life and customs, English prose literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700People
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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
November 11, 2003, Vintage, Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc.
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Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self
2002, A.A. Knopf
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