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The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited by Folger Shakespeare Library

Dec 29, 202500:36:51Arts

Why does Samuel Pepys’s diary still matter 200 years after it was first published? In her new book, The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary, historian Kate Loveman examines how Pepys’s extraordinary consistency as a...

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