Pepys' Diary

American  

noun

1. a diary kept by Samuel Pepys from January 1, 1660 to May 31, 1669, in which are recorded his impressions of contemporary London life, the life of the court, and the administration of the navy.

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Example Sentences

Five years later, Gould told a reporter, “Havelock Ellis has compared my book to Samuel Pepys’ Diary, because I try to get the forgotten man into history.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 27, 2015

"We place a high value on Pepys' Diary as the richest and most delightful contribution ever made to the history of English life and manners in the latter half of the seventeenth century."

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

There is, in Pepys' Diary, a delightful illustration of the swift transitions by which the mind in times of stress seeks to keep its equipoise.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

If read as a modern edition of "Pepys' Diary" they form entertaining literature, but by no stretch of the imagination could they be classed as historical sources.

From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.

During this prolific period Mark wrote many minor items, most of them rejected by Howells, and read extensively in one of his favorite books, Pepys' Diary.

From 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Twain, Mark