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Pages in category "17th-century diarists" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
John Evelyn FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. [1]
Pages in category "17th-century English diarists" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. ... Robert Woodford (diarist) Y. Walter Yonge (died ...
Robert Woodford was born at Old, Northamptonshire on 3 April 1606, a son of Robert Woodford and his wife Jane Dexter. He was educated at Brixworth and trained as an attorney by John Reading, a barrister at Inner Temple.
The 2004 film Stage Beauty concerns London theatre in the 17th century and is based on Jeffrey Hatcher's play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which in turn was inspired by a reference in Pepys' diary to the actor Edward Kynaston, who played female roles in the days when women were forbidden to appear on stage. Pepys is a character in the film and ...
John Dee 17th-century English mathematician and astronomer of Welsh extraction; Sophie Dedekam (1820–1894), Norwegian composer; Helga Deen (1925–1943), Dutch/German Holocaust victim; Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French painter; E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), English novelist; Bernard Delvaille (1931–2006), French poet and anthologist
"Code-breaker reveals a diarist to rival Pepys". The Telegraph. Aaronovitch, David (31 August 2003). "Hutton's place in history: Seventeenth-century diarist Roger Morrice casts light on how the future will regard the Kelly inquiry". The Observer. "Depths of disgust: The truth about Tunbridge Wells". The Guardian. 30 August 2003.
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 contemporary records.