 What is the purpose of someone

writing a diary or journal?

 How would you feel about
publishing a diary or journal of
your own?
 English naval administrator,
member of Parliament
 Famous of decade long diary

 Important account of London in the 1660’s

 Women, trivial concerns, dealings, jealousies,
insecurities, relationships, executions, royalty
 Commentary on politics, national events, personal
reactions and feelings
 Donated more than
3,000 volumes, including his diary
 Considered one of the most important
surviving private libraries of the 17th
century
 Most important:
Pepys’ Diary
 Primary source for the English Restoration period
 Personal revelations and eyewitness accounts
 Second Anglo-Dutch War
 The Great Plague (Bubonic plague)
 The Great Fire of London
Blessed be God, at the end of the
last year I was in very good
health, without any sense of my
old pain but upon taking of cold.
I lived in Axe yard, having my
wife and servant Jane, and no
more in family than us three. My
wife, after the absence of her
terms for seven weeks, gave me
hopes of her being with child,
but on the last day of the year
she hath them again.
The condition of the State was thus. Viz.
the Rump, after being disturbed by my
Lord Lambert, was lately returned to sit
again. The officers of the army all forced
to yield. Lawson lie[s] still in the River
and Monke is with his army in Scotland.
Only my Lord Lambert is not yet come
in to the Parliament; nor is it expected
that he will, without being forced to it.
 Read pages 527-531
 Answer questions 1-7, page 532
 This is NOT due by the end of class! We will
finish tomorrow and discuss.

 No homework 