'My wife' - Elizabeth Pepys (1640-69), wife of Samuel Pepys the diarist. Her portrait and life.

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3 ай бұрын

A short film about the beleaguered wife of the diarist who suffered his infidelities, meanness, physical violence, and restrictions imposed on her life prior to her premature death in 1669. Yet, she survives in the Diary as a vivid personality who fought her corner in the only ways she could.
You can read the diary online here: www.pepysdiary.com/

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@robnewman6101 3 ай бұрын

Wow. Interesting.

@peterkarargiris4110 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video Guy. Elizabeth deserved better. Was the diary in some ways Pepys' confessional - declaring his sins to posterity? John Hayls (1600 - 1679) was, apart from being a popular portrait painter, a good copyist of the works of the great Sir Anthony van Dyck. By 1632 van Dyck was 'principalle Paynter in ordinary' to Charles I. We can see van Dyck's influence in Pepys' portrait, particularly in the fashionable pose, "...and do almost break my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture..." (March 17th 1666) Many thanks Guy.

@valeryburmistrov6900 2 ай бұрын

Quite touching, many thanks!

@geoffreykeane4072 3 ай бұрын

He did love her. For all his sins, when he was in the wrong he knew it and committed the fact into the diary. It’s those petty family squabbles and emotional roller coaster things that we all have which to me makes the diary a treasure.

@kellyandthehorses2877 3 ай бұрын

He gave her a black eye and cheated on her. That's love???

@user-gd3xy2vl1s 3 ай бұрын

Crumbs she was pretty feisty bless her

@pulgasari Ай бұрын

Difficult for those of us who've lived under such regimes to find any of this excusable. That poor woman. I hope there's a heaven in which she's living lavishly and he's her servant.