Elisabeth Pepys
Elisabeth Pepys , née Elisabeth de St. Michel , (born October 23, 1640 in Bideford or near Bideford , Devon , England , † November 10, 1669 ) was the wife of the politician and author Samuel Pepys .
Life
Elisabeth Pepys was the daughter of Alexandre de St. Michels, a French who converted to Protestantism as a young man , and his wife Dorothea, a British woman.
She probably spent her early youth in England, later she also spent some time in France and other European countries. At the age of 15 she married the young English financial clerk Samuel Pepys , who after the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy held several important positions in the naval administration and held a prominent position in the political, scientific and social life of his hometown London. In his famous diary , which was only found more than 100 years after his death, he recorded the life of the couple and the social advancement of the couple over a period of almost 10 years.
Elisabeth Pepys died, presumably of typhus , after returning from a trip to France that she had undertaken with her husband towards the end of 1669. Like Samuel Pepys 34 years later, she was buried in the nave of St Olave Hart Street in the City of London , where a bust of her can be found to this day.
literature
- Robert Latham and William Matthews (Eds.): The Diary of Samuel Pepys - A New and Complete Transcription. 11 volumes, Bell & Hyman, London 1970–1983
- Volume 1: Introduction and 1660. ISBN 0713515511
- Volume 2: 1661. ISBN 071351552X
- Volume 3: 1662. ISBN 0713515538
- Volume 4: 1663. ISBN 0713515546
- Volume 5: 1664. ISBN 0713515554
- Volume 6: 1665. ISBN 0713515562
- Volume 7: 1666. ISBN 0713515570
- Volume 8: 1667. ISBN 0713515589
- Volume 9: 1668-1669. ISBN 0713515597
- Volume 10: Companion. ISBN 0713519932
- Volume 11: Index. ISBN 0713519940
- Samuel Pepys: The Diaries 1660–1669 . Edited by Gerd Haffmans and Heiko Arntz, translated by Georg Deggerich, Michael Haupt, Arnd Kösling, Hans-Christian Oeser , Martin Richter and Marcus Weigelt, 9 volumes and a companion volume, Haffmans Verlag bei Zweausendeins, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-942048 -18-7 .
- Claire Tomalin : Samuel Pepys. The Unequalled Self . Viking / Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-670-88568-1 (awarded the Whitbread Prize for the best biography of 2002).
Web links
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Blog-like diaries ( named Best British Blog by The Guardian in 2003; based on the Wheatley edition from 1893 to 1899)
- The Pepys project - Pepys' diary as a German blog
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Latham and William Matthews (Eds.): The Diary of Samuel Pepys - A New and Complete Transcription. 11 volumes, Bell & Hyman, London 1970–1983, Volume 10 Companion, p. 374.
- ^ Claire Tomalin: Samuel Pepys. The Unequalled Self. Viking / Penguin, London 2002, p. 57.
- ^ Robert Latham and William Matthews (Eds.): The Diary of Samuel Pepys - A New and Complete Transcription. 11 volumes, Bell & Hyman, London 1970-1983, Volume 10 Companion, pp. 316f.
- ^ Robert Latham and William Matthews (Eds.): The Diary of Samuel Pepys - A New and Complete Transcription. 11 volumes, Bell & Hyman, London 1970–1983, Volume 10 Companion, p. 318.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pepys, Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | St. Michel, Elisabeth de (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of the diary author Samuel Pepys |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1640 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bideford or at Bideford , Devon , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1669 |