Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions--until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic events in English history. Pepys witnessed the London Fire, the Great Plague, the Restoration of Charles II, and the Dutch Wars. He was a patron of the arts, having himself composed many delightful songs and participated in the artistic life of London. His flair for gossip and detail reveals a portrait of the times that rivals the most swashbuckling and romantic historical novels. In none of the earlier versions was there a reliable, full text, with commentary and notation with any claim to completeness. This edition, first published in 1970, is the first in which the entire diary is printed with systematic comment. This is the only complete edition available; it is as close to Pepys’s original as possible.

"Among the numerous diaries published recently as scholars probe women's history, Farnsworth's is a real find." -- Sally Mitchell "The publication now of books like Martha Farnsworth's has contributed to radical revisions of women's history and reassessment of women's skills as writers." -- Elizabeth Hampsten ..". superb edition of the diary of Kansas pioneer Martha Farnsworth... a fact-filled, revealing account of an extraordinary-but-ordinary woman... " -- American Quarterly ..". the inside story of a women's life in the middle of America... " -- Bloomsbury Review A Kansas teacher, housewife, photographer, and suffragist, Martha Farnsworth compulsively recorded her life in middle America during a period of tremendous social and cultural change.

The author recounts how she was arrested after being falsely accused of treason and placed in a Nazi prison while awaiting a certain death sentence

The diary of an ordinary woman of the early twentieth century documents the life of an outspoken feminist who struggled with the conflicts of career, marriage, children, sexuality, and spirituality

The diary of an ordinary woman of the early twentieth century documents the life of an outspoken feminist who struggled with the conflicts of career, marriage, children, sexuality, and spirituality

Told with honesty and sensitivity, a moving memoir by the daughter of Anne Morrow Lindbergh follows the last year in her mother's life as she describes Anne's battle following a series of debilitating strokes and her own feelings about having to care for an elderly parent.

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