Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… changing patterns of sociability across his life. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Mots-clés Diaries Family Hospitality Navy Patronage Samuel Pepys’s impressive social rise, chronicled in his diary of the 1660s, owed much to his … invited Will Swan, a discontented Nonconformist, to an alehouse and paid for the drink, stating in his diary that this hospitality was ‘to see how things stand with him and his party’ ( Diary , III, 275). This was prudent given that the … were financially better off than he was. 2 However, as with Will Swan, it was worth investing in the Joyces through hospitality. On 6 August 1663, after attending a party to celebrate the christening of Mary Joyce’s son, Pepys offered …
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