Introduction to Mr Pepys
Young Mt Pepys By John Hearsey. Constable. 306 pp. Illustrated. This is a work of popular history, of the son which makes academic historians apoplectic with indignation, but which nonetheless serves a very useful purpose in inspiring the voung and the not so young with an enthusiasm for historical studies. Mr Hearses has done his homework thoroughly, and he picks his way through the early events of Pepys’s life —up to the point where the diary was abandoned — in a racy and entertaining narrative which will undoubtedly send every reader off to buy. borrow, or steal a copy of the diary itself. Nor will this book be t»dundant then, for it contains most of the factual background information v hich is necessary to follow Pepys’s own writing and which is usually available only in expensive annotated editions of the diary A better general Introduction to the subject would be
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33425, 5 January 1974, Page 8
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