Samuel Pepys, the celebrated English diarist, was Clerk of the Acts for the Royal Navy for much of the 1660s. From 1660-69 he kept a powerfully vivid diary in shorthand of the Restoration, the Plague of 1665, the Great Fire of London in1666, his professional life, his marriage, social activities, and his sexual adventures. The latter have been notorious ever since the Diary first appeared, often being blithely described as 'amorous activities'. Yet today we would see him in a wholly different light - he used sex as the price of corruptly advancing others, he assaulted women openly and even in church, and also his servants, yet in the next breath he would dine or sleep with his wife. Where would we position him now?
Негізгі бет Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), the diarist. How would we see him today?
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