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