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Deborah Friedell: Pepys Deciphered, 25 December 2025
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
by Kate Loveman.
Cambridge, 238 pp., £22, April,978 1 009 55411 4 Show More
by Kate Loveman.
Cambridge, 238 pp., £22, April,
“... city in dreadful flames near the waterside’), what else was there? At last, Magdalene stirred. Kate Loveman’s new book traces the way Evelyn’s triumph prompted the master, George Neville, to consider whether he ought to do something about the 17th-century diary in his collection. He lent the first volume to an uncle, who passed it to another ... ”
