English Literature / Unit 10 ENL 0907 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Samuel Pepys's Diary
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The idea
Samuel Pepys, a naval administrator, kept a diary from January sixteen sixty until sixteen sixty-nine, when failing eyesight stopped him. Written in shorthand, it records the coronation, the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, the theatres and his private life.
In practice
Shorthand, Fire, Plague, theatres.
Where people slip
Pepys did not write it for readers.
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