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Contents:

	Introduction
	Chapter 1     Pepys' World
	Chapter 2     Pepys the Celebrity
	Chapter 3     Full Forty Times Over
	Chapter 4     Better to Marry than to Burn
	Chapter 5     A Woman's Place
	Chapter 6     A Pretty Dutch Woman
	Chapter 7     Sunday Recreations
	Chapter 8     Servant Girls
	Chapter 9     A Pretty Conceited Woman
	Chapter 10     Haberdasherie & Hanky-Panky
	Chapter 11     A Most Modest Woman
	Chapter 12     My Dear Mrs Knipp
	Chapter 13     A Very Pretty Wench & Her Mother
	Chapter 14     The Carpenter's Wife & Other Assignations
	Chapter 15     A Pretty Companion
	Chapter 16     Caught Red-Handed
	Chapter 17     The Storm Continues Unabated
	Chapter 18     Hell Hath No Fury
	Chapter 19     Some That Got Away
	Chapter 20     Last Love
	Chapter 21     Shame & Remorse?
	Chapter 22     Postscript
	Appendix A: The School of Venus
	Appendix B: The Bagwells
	Appendix C: Full Forty Times Over (full libretto)
	Appendix D: Ladies of Pepys' acquaintanceship
	Appendix E: Female Servants in Pepys' Household During the Diary Period
	Bibliography

Description: »Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is the fact that he was a serial sexual offender by modern standards; a voyeur, a groper and a rapist.
Set against the London society of Charles II’s restoration, and extensively using Pepys’ own words, this book concerns his numerous extra-marital affairs, often using his professional status and position of influence to advance the careers of his subordinates, in return for the sexual favours of their wives.
With his own very frank descriptions, translated from the strange mix of languages and the seventeenth century shorthand he used to camouflage the content, the reader witnesses in often very graphic detail how Pepys set about achieving his lascivious objectives – on occasion resorting to physical force where persuasion or bribery failed. Whether she be wife, daughter, mother or humble maidservant, no woman was safe from his rapacious sexual appetite.
This book shows the reader a little known, dark and sometimes very disturbing aspect of Samuel Pepys’ character, one which even in his own day, he would not have wanted to be publicly aired.« (Source: Pen and Sword)

Reviews:
- James, Edward. Historical Novels Review No. 84 (May 2018). Full Text: Historical Novel Society (Free Access)

- Klimt, Robera. »Samuel creeps: Queasily assessing the behaviour of the diarist.« TLS. Times Literary Supplement No. 6029 (October 19, 2018). – Full Text: Times Literary Supplement (Restricted Access)

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of England / Stuart period | Sex and the law: Sexual violence / Samuel Pepys