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Elisabeth Pepys (née de St Michel; 23 October 1640 – 10 November 1669) was the wife of Samuel Pepys, whom she married in 1655, shortly before her fifteenth birthday. Her father, Alexandre Marchant de St Michel, was born a French Roman Catholic but later converted to the Church of England. He married Dorothea, a daughter of Sir Francis ...
Samuel Pepys FRS (/ p iː p s /; [1] 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade.
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self is a 2002 historical biography by Claire Tomalin. It charts the life of Samuel Pepys , a 17th-century English diarist and naval administrator. The main source for the biography is the diary which Pepys wrote between 1660 and 1669, though Tomalin also draws in various other sources, including letters and other ...
Jane Birch (b. 1643/4, d. after 1703) was a servant to Elizabeth and Samuel Pepys from when she was 14 and then, off and on, until Samuel's death. She is notable because over 10% of the population of London were women servants and her life is well documented by her employer's detailed personal diary.
Elizabeth Pepys (1640–1669), French-born wife of Samuel Pepys; Emily Pepys (1833–1877), English child diarist (diary 1844–1845) Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English civil servant (diary 1660–1669) Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), English peeress
In late September 1667, Pepys was introduced to Willet [3] and she was employed as a companion for Pepys's wife, Elisabeth, from 1 October 1667, [4] with whom she attended the theatre. In late October 1668, Willet began an intimate relationship with Samuel Pepys.
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On 12 June 1668 the noted diarist Samuel Pepys, with his wife and servants, passed through Norton St Philip on their way to Bath from Salisbury. [3] [7] The inn was later used as the headquarters of Monmouth's army, during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, after his retreat from Bath.