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03593aam a2200541Ii 4500 001 269D799C2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 170622s2017 enkacf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781526717290 020 $a 1526717298 035 $a (OCoLC)991186117 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d NOC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 100 1 $a Pimm, Geoffrey, $e author. 245 14 $a The dark side of Samuel Pepys : $b society's first sex offender / $c Geoffrey Pimm. 264 1 $a Barnsley, South Yorkshire : $b Pen & Sword History, $c 2017. 300 $a ix, 182 pages, [16] pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is the fact that he was a serial sexual offender by modern standards; a voyeur, a groper and a rapist. Set against the London society of Charles II s restoration, and extensively using Pepys own words, this book concerns his numerous extra-marital affairs, often using his professional status and position of influence to advance the careers of his subordinates, in return for the sexual favours of their wives. With his own very frank descriptions, translated from the strange mix of languages and the seventeenth century shorthand he used to camouflage the content, the reader witnesses in often very graphic detail how Pepys set about achieving his lascivious objectives on occasion resorting to physical force where persuasion or bribery failed. Whether she be wife, daughter, mother or humble maidservant, no woman was safe from his rapacious sexual appetite. This book shows the reader a little known, dark and sometimes very disturbing aspect of Samuel Pepys character, one which even in his own day, he would not have wanted to be publicly aired."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 179) and index. 600 10 $a Pepys, Samuel, $d 1633-1703 $x Sexual behavior. 600 10 $a Pepys, Samuel, $d 1633-1703 $v Diaries. 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b Royal Navy $x Officials and employees $v Biography. 600 17 $a Pepys, Samuel, $d 1633-1703. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00031389 610 17 $a Great Britain. $b Royal Navy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00529487 650 0 $a Sex offenders $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a Cabinet officers $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, English $y Early modern, 1500-1700 $v Biography. 650 0 $a Diarists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 7 $a Armed Forces $x Officials and employees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351840 650 7 $a Authors, English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821945 650 7 $a Authors, English $x Early modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710932 650 7 $a Cabinet officers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00843535 650 7 $a Diarists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00892681 650 7 $a Sex. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114160 650 7 $a Sex offenders. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114566 650 7 $a Statesmen. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131990 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1500-1700 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Diaries. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Diaries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423794 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018020610.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=269D799C2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search