Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Pepys family tree

Map 1: London dwellings of Samuel Pepys

Map 2: Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke and Brampton

List of principal figures

Prologue

Part 1: 1633-1660

1: Elected son

2: Schoolboy's War: Huntingdon and St Paul's

3: Cambridge and clerking

4: Love and pain

5: House in axe yard

6: Diary

Part 2: 1660-1669

7: Changing sides

8: Families

9: Work

10: Jealousy

11: Death and plague

12: War

13: Marriage

14: King

15: Fire

16: Three Janes

17: Secret scientist

18: Speeches and stories

19: Surprise and disorder

Part 3: 1669-1703

20: After the diary

21: Public and private life

22: Plots

23: Travels for the Stuarts

24: Whirligigs

25: Jacobite

26: Journey to be made

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Text and illustration permissions

Index.