It's Samuel Pepys' Weblog!

I've just launched my new site, Pepys' Diary. Every day, starting 1st January, I'll be posting a new entry from the diary in a familiar weblog format. I'm looking forward to reading it myself, and I thought this would be a good way to have lots of people read it with me (that means you). Pepys' personal life was interesting enough and there are also bigger events to look forward to, such as the restoration of Charles II, the Great Fire of London and the Plague. If you have any comments on it so far, do let me know. So, tell your friends and start reading on Wednesday!

Comments

  • Greg Elin at 26 Dec 2002, 8:16pm. Permalink

    I learned of your project from Ben's blog. Bravo! I've made a posting on one of my blogs (http://learnaboutblogs.blogspot.com

    I appreciate, too, the scholarship you appear to be undertaking this endeavor as indicated by your extensive annotations and explanations.

    I have never read Pepys and look forward to reading along.

  • Tim Lauer at 26 Dec 2002, 9:11pm. Permalink

    Like the others have said… what a great idea… and an RSS feed too… great work.. Am looking forward to reading along…

  • wim de roos at 30 Dec 2002, 3:06pm. Permalink

    Great idea, this will be the first blog I will follow. Looking forward to it, just read day one, exciting stuff. Thank you.

  • Ralph H. Bower at 2 Jan 2003, 2:18pm. Permalink

    Have been reading and collecting Pepys since the early thirties. Will follow all comments with interest

    RHB

  • Paul Mansour at 2 Jan 2003, 3:22pm. Permalink

    Thank you very much for doing this! I am looking forward to reading along every day. What a great way to read the diary. Question: I think I remember reading that Pepys is pronounced “peeps”… is this true?

  • Ian Jellyfysh Barrett at 2 Jan 2003, 5:33pm. Permalink

    A brilliant idea -
    I look forward to reading it.


    'A man that's tired of a weblog is tired of life '
    IDB 2003

  • Joseph Battaile at 2 Jan 2003, 6:47pm. Permalink

    Right on !!

  • Phil at 2 Jan 2003, 7:19pm. Permalink

    Paul, yes, Pepys is generally pronounced “peeps”. There is a brief (Victorian) discussion of the pronounciation towards the very bottom of this page: http://www.pepysdiary.com/intro/pepys/

  • PHE at 2 Jan 2003, 8:19pm. Permalink

    Excellent idea. I have been getting into Pepys over the last 2 or 3 years and have just read an excellent biography by Claire Tomalin. It is annoying that Pepys is often portrayed as 'bawdy' which serves to devalue the quality of his writing. Eg. BBC website's headline of “Bawdy musings” highlighting the new website. The 'bawdiness' simply comes from the openess. In every other way, his life was highly sophisticated and fascinating and far more than just Falstaffian.

  • Steve Freeman at 4 Jan 2003, 12:26am. Permalink

    Brilliant idea!