Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… too much, such as repeated trips to the theatre with his wife or friends; wine-drinking; and making sexual advances to women and girls. Pepys’s concern about these types of social pursuit was less moral than practical: they wasted money and … of Whitechapel, ‘where I should have been, but my pride would not suffer me’ ( Diary , VII, 174). 2 . Kate Loveman, ‘Women and the History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary’, Historical Journal (2022), pp. 20-21. doi:10.1017/S0018246X21000716 …
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