Pepys' Diary

The PhD student admitted what she knew about Pepys' diary had "clouded my opinion of him and Restoration society".

This is no work of literature, like Pepys’ diary, but a much more telegraphic record of day-to-day facts.

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.”

Samuel Pepys’ Diary did indeed mention tripe in the entry for Oct.

Hitchings, who seems at times as much aggregator as historian, references many important, if tangential, works that reflected manners of that period and beyond, among them Samuel Pepys’ diary and works by both English and European commentators.