BIOGRAPHY

Abernathy, Cecil. Mr. Pepys of Seething Lane. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1957, 384 p.

A comprehensive biography of Pepys, focusing on “the emergence of a ‘new’ man at the great moment of transition in English cultural history-nonheroic, efficient, vulnerable.”

Bradford, Gamaliel. The Soul of Samuel Pepys. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924, 262 p.

A character study of Pepys, with scattered comments on the aesthetic merits of the Diary.

Bryant, Arthur. Samuel Pepys. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933-38.

A well-documented, highly praised biography of Pepys.

Drinkwater, John. Pepys: His Life and Character. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1930, 374 p.

A biography of Pepys aimed at the general reader.

Emden, Cecil S. Pepys Himself. London: Oxford University Press, 1963, 146 p.

A profile of Pepys, offering commentary on the diarist's personal qualities as revealed in the Diary.

Ollard, Richard. Pepys: A Biography. Revised ed. London: Sinclair Stevenson Ltd., 1991.

A prominent biography of Pepys' life, paying particular attention to the context of the Restoration age.

O’Neil, John H. “Samuel Pepys: The War of Will and Pleasure.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 19, No. 2, (Fall 1995): 88-94.

Views Pepys's statements in the Diary regarding the exertion of his will as indicative of the larger concerns of his day.

Trease, Geoffrey. Samuel Pepys and His World. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972, 128 p.

A lavishly illustrated short biography of Pepys.

CRITICISM

Dale, Donald. “The Greatness of Samuel Pepys.” The Quarterly Review 275, No. 546 (October 1940): 227-38.

Review article treating eight separate works by or about Pepys.

Jeffrey, Francis. Review of “Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq.” The Edinburgh Review XLIII, No. LXXXV (November 1825): 23-54.

Review of the first published edition of Pepys's Diary.

Lewis, C. S. “Transposition.” In his They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses, pp. 166-82. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962.

Contains a close study of Pepys's diary entry for February 27, 1668, noting the diarist's self-examination of internal sensations.

Marburg, Clara. Mr. Pepys and Mr. Evelyn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935, 156 p.

Examines the correspondence between Pepys and John Evelyn.

Matthews, William. “Introduction: The Diary as Literature.” In The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1660, Vol. 1, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, pp. xcvii-cxii. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.

Studies the “paradox in the literary immediacy of the diary.”

Miner, Earl. “Pepys Revived.” The Hudson Review XXIV, No. 1 (Spring 1971): 171-76.

Reviews Volumes 1-3 of The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A New and Complete Transcription, focusing on the aesthetic qualities of the Diary and its likely method of composition.

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope. Pepys' “Diary” and the New Science. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965, 198 p.

Studies Pepys's interest in science.

Rolland, Romain “An English Amateur (Pepys' Diary).” In his A Musical Tour through the Land of the Past, translated by Bernard Miall, pp. 21-44. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1922.

Explores references to music in the Diary.

Summers, Montague. The Playhouse of Pepys. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1935, 485 p.

A survey of the English Restoration theater based on dramatic criticism in the Diary.

Willy, Margaret. English Diarists: Evelyn and Pepys. Writers and Their Work, No. 162. London: Longmans, Green & Co. for The British Council and the National Book League, 1963, 47 p.

Approaches the Diary as a record of “the hopes, fears and gratifications of an obscure, impecunious clerk.”

Wilson, John Harold. The Private Life of Mr. Pepys. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959, 249 p.

Explores the Diary with an attention to Pepys's candid descriptions of his passions.

Additional coverage of Samuel Pepys's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, 1660-1789; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 101; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors: Modules—Most-Studied; and World Literature Criticism.