Kate Loveman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5441338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Loveman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Loveman |
| SIGNATURE | LOVEMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2552-0825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British culture since then. Kate Loveman – one of the few peo…
Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
Crime and the Law in Defoe’s Works
This chapter examines Daniel Defoe’s representations of the law and its agents in Moll Flanders (1722), Colonel Jack (1722), and his early satires. It begins by outlining how criminals were apprehended and prosecuted in the early eighteenth century, explaining the ways these legal processes were manipulated by the various parties involved. In pamphlets such as The True-Born Englishman (1700/1), Defoe attacked the injustice of the legal system and…
Chocolate in Seventeenth-century England and Spain
In the late 1660s, the first Earl of Sandwich and his aide John Werden compiled a remarkable set of information on the manufacture and consumption of chocolate in Spain and England. These details, entered into Sandwich’s diary, included an exceptionally valuable chocolate recipe supplied by Charles II himself. From Madrid, Werden provided illustrated accounts of chocolate manufacture in Spain and of elite ways to consume the drink. He supplied de…
Afterword
Writers of scribal news in the 17th and 18th centuries were often keen to evade scrutiny of how their productions were created and transmitted but – as the articles in this volume have demonstrated – they certainly merit that scrutiny. The information that a political newsletter contained was not, and is not, confined to what the words on the page relay about events in parliament or other developments. As each manuscript was the product of a set …
Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
Through focusing on the lives of women, this article examines silences and obfuscations in Samuel Pepys's diary and in the histories we tell about this most famous of Restoration sources. It begins by considering how the ways we read the diary today remain influenced by Pepys's decisions when preserving his papers. While his diary has increasingly been studied for what it reveals about early modern sex and/or women's lives, historians have faced …
Epigram and Spontaneous Wit
This chapter investigates epigrams in order to recover elusive practices that widely affected the composition and interpretation of satire in the long eighteenth century. Restoration courtiers were credited with the production of spontaneous satirical epigrams. However, epigrammatic composition was far from being an elite practice: satirical epigrams circulated via oral transmission, in manuscript, in print, and as graffiti. Epigrammatic graffiti…
Samuel Pepys and His Books
'Multitude of books' : patterns of reading in Peyps's diary -- Books, education, and self-advancement -- Pepys and news networks in Restoration London -- Reading history in the Restoration -- 'Books of pleasure' : plays, romances, and novels -- Buying books in Restoration London -- Books, manuscripts, gifts : scholarly and international networks -- 'Notes from discourses touching relition' : religious and scientific enquiry -- Libraries and close…
Books, Manuscripts, Gifts
Access to reading material in the seventeenth century was heavily dependent on contacts outside the commercial networks of the book trade. This chapter uncovers the unspoken codes that governed gifts of books and hospitality among scholars, collectors, and other interested parties. Among Pepys’s associates these non-commercial exchanges of texts were essential to successful information gathering and important in affirming social ties. Manuscript …
The Introduction of Chocolate into England
In the mid-seventeenth century chocolate was a new and fascinating product in England, often grouped with two equally exotic drinks, coffee and tea. This article focuses on the early history of chocolate, examining how it was marketed, perceived, and consumed. Chocolate sellers, who included coffee-houses proprietors, frequently made use of print to educate potential customers: the 1640s and 1650s saw chocolate-drinking promoted as medicinal, exc…
Samuel Pepys and 'Discourses touching Religion' under James II
IN the mid-1680s, Samuel Pepys was at the summit of his career. A favoured client of King James II, he held the post of secretary for the admiralty and for two years was president of the Royal Society. Pepys had long since ended the copious diary he had kept during the 1660s and nothing comparable survives to detail his activities during James’s reign. Yet among his surviving papers is a cryptic document entitled ‘Notes from Discourses touching R…
The Horrid Popish Plot’
Reading Women
Samuel Pepys and Deb Willet After the Diary
Samuel Pepys's affair with his wife's companion Deborah Willet is one of the most celebrated episodes in his journal of the 1660s. When Pepys ended his journal in May 1669, he also believed that he had ended contact with Deb. Unable to trace her in the historical record, scholars have been forced to accept this conclusion. However, new evidence shows that Deb Willet did not disappear from Pepys's life. Rather, she married soon after the end of th…
Political Information in the Seventeenth Century
Reading, society and politics in early modern England . Edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix+363. ISBN 0-521-82434-6. £50.00. The politics of information in early modern Europe . Edited by Brendan Dooley and Sabrina A. Baron. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. viii+310. ISBN 0-415-20310-4. £75.00. Literature, satire and the early Stuart state . By Andrew McRae. Cambridge: Cambrid…
Full of Improbable Lies’
Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
Through focusing on the lives of women, this article examines silences and obfuscations in Samuel Pepys's diary and in the histories we tell about this most famous of Restoration sources. It begins by considering how the ways we read the diary today remain influenced by Pepys's decisions when preserving his papers. While his diary has increasingly been studied for what it reveals about early modern sex and/or women's lives, historians have faced …
The Introduction of Chocolate into England
In the mid-seventeenth century chocolate was a new and fascinating product in England, often grouped with two equally exotic drinks, coffee and tea. This article focuses on the early history of chocolate, examining how it was marketed, perceived, and consumed. Chocolate sellers, who included coffee-houses proprietors, frequently made use of print to educate potential customers: the 1640s and 1650s saw chocolate-drinking promoted as medicinal, exc…
Samuel Pepys and 'Discourses touching Religion' under James II
IN the mid-1680s, Samuel Pepys was at the summit of his career. A favoured client of King James II, he held the post of secretary for the admiralty and for two years was president of the Royal Society. Pepys had long since ended the copious diary he had kept during the 1660s and nothing comparable survives to detail his activities during James’s reign. Yet among his surviving papers is a cryptic document entitled ‘Notes from Discourses touching R…
Samuel Pepys and Deb Willet After the Diary
Samuel Pepys's affair with his wife's companion Deborah Willet is one of the most celebrated episodes in his journal of the 1660s. When Pepys ended his journal in May 1669, he also believed that he had ended contact with Deb. Unable to trace her in the historical record, scholars have been forced to accept this conclusion. However, new evidence shows that Deb Willet did not disappear from Pepys's life. Rather, she married soon after the end of th…
Full of Improbable Lies’
Full of Improbable Lies’
Political Information in the Seventeenth Century
Reading, society and politics in early modern England . Edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix+363. ISBN 0-521-82434-6. £50.00. The politics of information in early modern Europe . Edited by Brendan Dooley and Sabrina A. Baron. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. viii+310. ISBN 0-415-20310-4. £75.00. Literature, satire and the early Stuart state . By Andrew McRae. Cambridge: Cambrid…
Samuel Pepys and Deb Willet After the Diary
Samuel Pepys's affair with his wife's companion Deborah Willet is one of the most celebrated episodes in his journal of the 1660s. When Pepys ended his journal in May 1669, he also believed that he had ended contact with Deb. Unable to trace her in the historical record, scholars have been forced to accept this conclusion. However, new evidence shows that Deb Willet did not disappear from Pepys's life. Rather, she married soon after the end of th…
Reading Women
The Horrid Popish Plot’
Samuel Pepys and 'Discourses touching Religion' under James II
IN the mid-1680s, Samuel Pepys was at the summit of his career. A favoured client of King James II, he held the post of secretary for the admiralty and for two years was president of the Royal Society. Pepys had long since ended the copious diary he had kept during the 1660s and nothing comparable survives to detail his activities during James’s reign. Yet among his surviving papers is a cryptic document entitled ‘Notes from Discourses touching R…
The Introduction of Chocolate into England
In the mid-seventeenth century chocolate was a new and fascinating product in England, often grouped with two equally exotic drinks, coffee and tea. This article focuses on the early history of chocolate, examining how it was marketed, perceived, and consumed. Chocolate sellers, who included coffee-houses proprietors, frequently made use of print to educate potential customers: the 1640s and 1650s saw chocolate-drinking promoted as medicinal, exc…
Samuel Pepys and His Books
'Multitude of books' : patterns of reading in Peyps's diary -- Books, education, and self-advancement -- Pepys and news networks in Restoration London -- Reading history in the Restoration -- 'Books of pleasure' : plays, romances, and novels -- Buying books in Restoration London -- Books, manuscripts, gifts : scholarly and international networks -- 'Notes from discourses touching relition' : religious and scientific enquiry -- Libraries and close…
Books, Manuscripts, Gifts
Access to reading material in the seventeenth century was heavily dependent on contacts outside the commercial networks of the book trade. This chapter uncovers the unspoken codes that governed gifts of books and hospitality among scholars, collectors, and other interested parties. Among Pepys’s associates these non-commercial exchanges of texts were essential to successful information gathering and important in affirming social ties. Manuscript …
Epigram and Spontaneous Wit
This chapter investigates epigrams in order to recover elusive practices that widely affected the composition and interpretation of satire in the long eighteenth century. Restoration courtiers were credited with the production of spontaneous satirical epigrams. However, epigrammatic composition was far from being an elite practice: satirical epigrams circulated via oral transmission, in manuscript, in print, and as graffiti. Epigrammatic graffiti…
Chocolate in Seventeenth-century England and Spain
In the late 1660s, the first Earl of Sandwich and his aide John Werden compiled a remarkable set of information on the manufacture and consumption of chocolate in Spain and England. These details, entered into Sandwich’s diary, included an exceptionally valuable chocolate recipe supplied by Charles II himself. From Madrid, Werden provided illustrated accounts of chocolate manufacture in Spain and of elite ways to consume the drink. He supplied de…
Afterword
Writers of scribal news in the 17th and 18th centuries were often keen to evade scrutiny of how their productions were created and transmitted but – as the articles in this volume have demonstrated – they certainly merit that scrutiny. The information that a political newsletter contained was not, and is not, confined to what the words on the page relay about events in parliament or other developments. As each manuscript was the product of a set …
Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
Through focusing on the lives of women, this article examines silences and obfuscations in Samuel Pepys's diary and in the histories we tell about this most famous of Restoration sources. It begins by considering how the ways we read the diary today remain influenced by Pepys's decisions when preserving his papers. While his diary has increasingly been studied for what it reveals about early modern sex and/or women's lives, historians have faced …
Crime and the Law in Defoe’s Works
This chapter examines Daniel Defoe’s representations of the law and its agents in Moll Flanders (1722), Colonel Jack (1722), and his early satires. It begins by outlining how criminals were apprehended and prosecuted in the early eighteenth century, explaining the ways these legal processes were manipulated by the various parties involved. In pamphlets such as The True-Born Englishman (1700/1), Defoe attacked the injustice of the legal system and…
The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen him arrested. This engaging book explores the creation of the most famous journal in the English language, how it came to be published in 1825, and the many remarkable roles it has played in British culture since then. Kate Loveman – one of the few peo…
Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
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