Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the most famous diarist in English letters. From 1660 t0 1669, he penned an unforgettable day-by-day description of Restoration London, with its disasters (the Great Plague ...

IN Mr. Bradford’s practice of the art of ‘psychography’ he has established a method of biography which is very much his own. It is the method of the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic: it has much ...

In July 2020, a quote ostensibly written in 1665 by Samuel Pepys, dubbed the world's greatest diarist by some, started to circulate on social media. The passage lamented how "gadabouts" (defined by ...

Claire Tomalin, biographer of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft, has taken the 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys as her latest subject. The Bookseller Editorial Team Claire Tomalin, biographer of ...

In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.” During ...