Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics
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Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
(source: http://beebo.org/pepys/about.html)
On Pepys's diary:
“Private diary, January, 1660-May, 1669; the nonpareil of English diaries; the observations and records of a man of infinite variety and zest, “ever with child to see new things”; his own work, domestic life, friendships, and pleasures, which took him into almost every section of English life, from the court to the docks; in its immediacy and variety it is one of the supreme portraits of a man, inside and outside, and a mirror of the times.” (William Matthews, comp., British Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of British Diaries Written between 1442 and 1942 (Berkeley and Los Angeles / London: University of California Press, 1950, p. 29.)
brief biographical notes
| 23 Feb 1633 | Born in Salisbury Court, off Fleet Street, London |
| Educated at Huntingdon and St. Paul’s School | |
| 1651 | Entered Magdalene College, Cambridge |
| 1654 | Graduated BA |
| 1660 | Graduated MA |
| 1 Dec 1655 | Married Elizabeth St. Michel |
| 1656 | Steward to Sir Edward Montagu |
| 1 Jan 1660 | Diary begins; Resided at Axe Yard, Westminster; Clerk to Sir George Downing, Teller of the Exchequer; Clerk of the Acts; Moved to Navy Office between Crutched Friars and Seething Lane; Clerk of the Privy Seal; Justice of the Peace |
| 1662 | Member of Tangier Commission |
| 1665 | Treasurer of the Tangier Commission |
| 1668 | Spoke in defence of the Navy before the House of Commons |
| 31 May 1669 | Diary concluded |
| 10 Nov 1669 | Death of his wife |
| 1673 | Secretary of the Admiralty |
| 1676 | Master of Trinity House |
| 1679 | MP for Harwich; resigned Secretaryship of the Admiralty; Committed to the Tower on accusation of sending information about the Navy to the French Government |
| 1680 | Discharged |
| 1683 | Visit to Tangier; wrote Tangier Diary |
| 1684 | Again appointed Secretary of the Admiralty; President of the Royal Society |
| 1685 | MP for Harwich |
| 1686 | Secretary of the Admiralty |
| 1689 | End of his official career as Secretary of the Navy; Committed to the Gatehouse in June, released in July |
| 1690 | Published Memoirs of the Royal Navy |
| 1701 | Retired to William Hewer’s House at Clapham |
| 26 May 1703 | Died at Clapham (buried in St. Olave’s Church, Hart Street) |
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from: Eighteenth-Century E-Texts, edited by Jack Lynch:
- The Concise Pepys (from the 1825 edition) (Bibliomania)
- Diary (Warne's abridged edition of 1879) (Gutenberg)
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Gutenberg) - Edition of Henry B. Wheatley from the 1890s.
Pepys's diary
- Latham, R. and W. Matthews, eds. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Vols. 1-9. London: G. Bell and Sons / Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970-76. Vols. 10-11. London: Bell & Hyman / Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983.
correspondence
- Howarth, R. G., ed., Letters and the Second Diary of Samuel Pepys. London: J. M. Dent, 1932.
- Heath, H. T., ed., The Letters of Samuel Pepys and His Family Circle. Oxford: Clarendon, 1955.
- Tanner, J. R., ed., Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703. 2 Vols.
language
- Taylor, Ivan E. 1963. “Mr. Pepys's Use of Colloquial English”. College Language Association Journal 7. 22-36.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1981. “Observations on the Language of Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’: Some Peculiarities in the Use of Progressive”. Persica (Annual Publication of the English Literary Society of Okayama) 8. 137-57.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1985. “Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’”. Mulberry (Annual Publication of the English Literary Society of Aichi Prefectural University) 34. 107-33.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1986. “Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’: Possible Antedatings and Postdatings (1)”. Mulberry (Annual Publication of the English Literary Society of Aichi Prefectural University) 35. 161-71.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1987. “Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’: Possible Antedatings and Postdatings (2)”. Bulletin of the Faculty of Literature, Aichi Prefectural University 35. 71-77.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1987. “Auxiliary Have in Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’, with Special Reference to Mutative Verbs: (1) A Statistical Study”. Studies in Modern English (Annual Publication of Modern English Association of Japan) 3. 23-51.
- Nakamura, Fujio. 1988. “A Word on the Regulation of the Auxiliary Do: Samuel Pepys’s ‘Diary’ as a Test Case”. Mulberry (Annual Publication of the English Literary Society of Aichi Prefectural University) 37. 113-45.
of related interest
- Marburg, C. Mr. Pepys and Mr. Evelyn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935.