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Masques at a Chelsea school in 1656 or 1657 were recalled in 1663 by Elizabeth Pepys's paid companion Mary Ashwell, who still assisted with small children there. Possibly it was the good school which had been within convenient distance of a house leased to William Lawrence in 1652 and 1662.
Hace 4 días · In 1574 the Countess of Lennox's surviving son Charles was married secretly at Rufford to Elizabeth Cavendish, the Countess of Shrewsbury's daughter by a previous marriage. The Queen's touchiness about the marriages of those who stood closest to the inheritance of the throne had already been demonstrated by her treatment of the ...
Hace 3 días · Pepys was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty in June, 1684. He was entered as the householder of No. 12 from 1685 until 1687. Pepys' move to No. 14 is clearly shown in the Poor Rate books for 1688 to 1690, the relevant entries in which are as follows:
Hace 2 días · Δ. Simon Rowe has uploaded some photos and audio from the Pepys Portrait Project, that we started working on with Francesca SanLorenzo in 2004, to his website here (archived). This was to coincide with the display of four images at the 30th birthday celebrations for the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of….
Hace 5 días · A letter from a descendent recalls Elizabeth’s daughter telling “stories of the early days in Ohio, her Quaker mother, The Meeting House they attended, the gray dress for Sunday wear.”. I was raised Methodist, yet Dorothea, 11 generations earlier, still loomed in our family history. She came to the forefront for me when, in 1999, I walked ...
Hace 23 horas · • Edgar Degas’ Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) takes centre stage in a new free exhibition at The National Gallery.Part of the free ‘Discover’ series of displays, Discover Degas & Miss La La takes a close look at the painting and reveals new information about the sitter, circus artist Miss La La, or Anna Albertine Olga Brown (1858‒1945).
Hace 3 días · Naxos has received recognition for a number of highly ambitious unabridged projects. These include The Diary of Samuel Pepys, read by Leighton Pugh, with David Timson; Finnegans Wake, read by Barry McGovern, with Marcella Riordan; War and Peace, read by Neville Jason; and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, featuring David Timson.
