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First published: July 1, 2026 - Last updated: July 1, 2026

TITLE INFORMATION

Author: Kate Loveman

Title: The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

Subtitle: -

Place: Cambridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2025

Pages: 254pp.

ISBN-13: 9781009554114 (hbk.) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781009554107 (ebk.) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Modern History: 17th Century | European History: English History | Cases: Real Offenders / Samuel Pepys



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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Author: Kate Loveman, School of Arts, Media and Communications, University of Leicester - ORCID

Contents:
  List of Figures (p. viii)
  Conventions (p. x)
  Chronology (p. xi)
  List of Abbreviations (p. xiii)
  Introduction (p. 1)
    Beginnings (p. 2)
    Scandal (p. 4)
    Disasters (p. 5)
    Sex (p. 7)
    Endings (p. 9)
    History and Literature (p. 11)
    Chapters in This Book (p. 13)
  Chapter 1 Writing the Diary (p. 15)
    Occasions (p. 16)
    ‘Blessed be God’ (p. 18)
    Self-Accounting and Composition (p. 19)
    Control (p. 23)
    History and Pleasure (p. 26)
    Writing with Purpose (p. 30)
  Chapter 2 Shorthand and Secrecy (p. 32)
    Shorthand in England (p. 33)
    Reading Pepys’s Shorthand (p. 35)
    Deeper Secrets (p. 41)
    Other Readers? (p. 42)
    Shorthand Matters (p. 47)
  Chapter 3 Saving the Diary (p. 48)
    Dangers (p. 48)
    Controlling Archives (p. 51)
    The Library (p. 55)
    Best Laid Plans (p. 61)
    Risks and Rewards (p. 63)
  Chapter 4 First Publication (p. 64)
    Reading about the Restoration (p. 65)
    The Library and the Diary (p. 67)
    ‘The Decipherer’ (p. 68)
    ‘The Noble Editor’ (p. 71)
    Reading Pepys’s Memoirs (p. 73)
    ‘A Book of the Highest Authority’ (p. 79)
    ‘Honest Pepys’ (p. 81)
  Chapter 5 Victorian Pepys (p. 84)
    Rival Editions (p. 85)
    Braybrooke’s New Editions (1848–1849 and 1854) (p. 86)
    Bright’s Edition (1875–1879) (p. 86)
    Wheatley’s Edition (1893–1899) (p. 88)
    ‘Suppressed Passages’ (p. 90)
    Imagining Pepys: Pictures, Fiction, Parody (p. 94)
    Education and Miseducation (p. 100)
    Reputations (p. 104)
    A Classic (p. 106)
  Chapter 6 War and the Diary (p. 108)
    The Great Romantic: Novels (p. 111)
    A Great Englishman: Biographies (p. 113)
    War Diaries (p. 117)
    Trivial Stuff? (p. 121)
    Prime-Time TV (p. 125)
    Everybody’s Pepys (p. 129)
  Chapter 7 ‘Every Last Obscenity’: Complete and Online (p. 131)
    An Obscene Publication (p. 132)
    The Public Good (p. 134)
    Latham and Matthews (p. 138)
    Pepysdiary.com (p. 142)
    Living through History (p. 146)
    Innovations (p. 148)
  Chapter 8 Reading against the Grain (p. 151)
    Elizabeth Pepys (p. 153)
    Girls and Women (p. 155)
    Consent and Force (p. 160)
    Black Londoners (p. 163)
    Slavery in Naval Correspondence and the Diary (p. 165)
    ‘Mingo’ (p. 170)
    Reading the Diary (p. 175)
  Afterword (p. 177)
  Acknowledgements (p. 184)
  Notes (p. 186)
  Select Bibliography (p. 223)
    Texts of Pepys’s Diary (p. 223)
      Pepys’s Manuscript (p. 223)
    Manuscripts (p. 224)
      BBC Written Archives, Reading (p. 224)
      Bedfordshire Archives, Bedford (p. 224)
      Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (p. 224)
      British Library, London (p. 224)
      Imperial War Museum, London (p. 224)
      London Archives (p. 224)
      Magdalene College, Cambridge (p. 224)
      Magdalene College, Cambridge: Pepys Library (p. 225)
      Mapperton House, Dorset (p. 225)
      National Archives, Kew, London (p. 225)
      National Maritime Museum (Caird Library), Greenwich, London (p. 225)
      University of California, Los Angeles, Charles E. Young Research Library (p. 225)
    Print and Online Sources (p. 226)
  Index (p. 233)

Description: »During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British culture since then. Kate Loveman – one of the few people who can read Pepys's shorthand – unlocks the riddles of the diary, investigating why he chose to preserve such private matters for later generations. She also casts fresh light on the women and sexual relationships in Pepys's life and on Black Britons living in or near his household. Exploring the many inventive uses to which the diary has been put, Loveman shows how Pepys's history became part of the history of the nation.« (Source: Cambridge University Press)

Reviews: Scurr, Ruth. TLS: Times Literary Supplement No. 6387 (September 5, 2025). - Full Text: Times Literary Supplement (Restricted Access)

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