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Elisabeth Pepys (née de St Michel; 23 October 1640 – 10 November 1669) was the wife of Samuel Pepys, whom she married in 1655, shortly before her fifteenth birthday. Her father, Alexandre Marchant de St Michel, was born a French Roman Catholic but later converted to the Church of England.
- 10 November 1669 (aged 29), City of London, England
- St Olave's, London, England
Elizabeth Pepys, as beautifully depicted by artist James Thomson, after John Hayls here, as “immortalized” at St. Olave’s here and eulogized here, was the wife of Samuel Pepys. She was the daughter of Alexandre and Dorothea St. Michel, and a sister to Balty .
Murió Elizabeth, que no pudo ver cómo su marido prosperaba de manera espectacular hasta amasar una respetable fortuna y convertirse en miembro del Parlamento. Pepys estuvo acompañado sus últimos años de otra mujer, sufrió la destrucción de su casa por el fuego, y envejeció.
- José Luis de Juan
Samuel Pepys FRS ( / piːps /; [1] 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade.
Pepys y su esposa tomaron unas vacaciones en Francia y los Países Bajos entre junio y octubre de 1669; a su regreso, Elisabeth cayó enferma y murió el 10 de noviembre de 1669. Pepys le erigió un monumento en la iglesia de Saint Olave de Hart Street, Londres.
Pepys’s diary is an important source for our understanding of the development of the English language, and is cited over 1700 times in the Oxford English Dictionary. Intimate descriptions of Elizabeth Pepys’s ‘terms’, or periods, are recorded several times in the diary.
In an especially heated quarrel over Elizabeth’s management of the household, Pepys gave her a black eye. The full record of Pepys’s mistreatment of women is too extensive to detail here. That grim record could fill a book—and, in fact, it has.
