ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Samuel Pepys’s diary entries were an eyewitness account of some of history’s greatest happenings. He wrote about the Great Fire of London, Second Dutch War, the Plague and more. In January 1, 1660, Samuel Pepys started writing his diary. He began by recording his daily experiences.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Pepys, (born February 23, 1633, London, England-died May 26, 1703, London), English diarist and naval administrator, celebrated for his Diary (first published in 1825), which gives a fascinating picture of the official and upper-class life of Restoration London from Jan. 1, 1660, to May 31, 1669.

Detailed explanation-3: -One ponders over the profession of England’s world famous diarist, Samuel Pepys, who lived from 1633 to 1703; a personality who also chronicled London’s Great Plague in 1665-66; The Great Fire of London in 1666, and his own observations of life from 1660 to 1669.

Detailed explanation-4: -The son of John, a tailor and his wife Margaret, Samuel Pepys would later become famous for the diary he used to record the everyday events that were happening whilst he worked for the Navy.

Detailed explanation-5: -Samuel Pepys was a naval administrator living in London at the time of the Great Fire of London. He famously kept a diary. This diary is important as it tells us how the fire progressed. “I down to the water-side, and there got a boat and through bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire.