Ann, Lady Fanshawe, et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, pp. 101-92.
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John Evelyn
Standard Name: Evelyn, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | John Dryden | Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism
. He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Tollet | Her father met both Samuel Pepys
and John Evelyn
, the diarist, through his Navy Board work. He became a close friend of Evelyn, and was a friend too of Edmond Halley
, the astronomer. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University. 5-7, 11-12 |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Cavendish | John Evelyn
, as a member of the Royal Society
, several times visited the Duke
and Duchess of Newcastle
(sometimes with his wife
) to arrange their visit to the Society. Cavendish, Margaret. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Editors Bowerbank, Sylvia and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview. 91 |
| Literary responses | Lucy Hutchinson | John Evelyn
, who published an essay on Lucretius' first book in 1656, admired LH
's translation. |
Timeline
Between 1637 and 1640: John Evelyn, an undergraduate at Balliol...
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Between 1637 and 1640
John Evelyn
, an undergraduate at Balliol College
, Oxford, first saw coffee drunk (by a visiting Greek), thirty years before the custom became established.
17 May 1649: John Evelyn went up the Thames to Putney...
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17 May 1649
John Evelyn
went up the Thames to Putney with a mostly female party to see the Schooles or Colledges of the young gentlewomen.
29 March 1652: An eclipse of the sun, in John Evelyn's words,...
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29 March 1652
An eclipse of the sun, in John Evelyn
's words, so exceedingly alarm'd the whole Nation, so as hardly any would worke, none stir out of their houses; so ridiculously were they abused by knavish...
10 May 1652: John Evelyn the diarist, who happened to...
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10 May 1652
John Evelyn
the diarist, who happened to be passing by, saw a woman burned to death at Smithfield, London, for murdering her husband.
4 December 1653: John Evelyn heard a working-class mechanic...
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4 December 1653
John Evelyn
heard a working-class mechanic preach at his parish church; he was surprised but not impressed.
11 May 1654: John Evelyn noted in his diary that respectable...
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11 May 1654
John Evelyn
noted in his diary that respectable women were beginning to paint themselves, formerly a most ignominious thing and us'd only by prostitutes.
19 August 1654: John and Mary Evelyn met an alehouse-keeper...
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19 August 1654
John
and Mary Evelyn
met an alehouse-keeper in Lincoln: a woman six feet two inches tall; the inn's custom relied chiefly on peoples coming to see her on account of her height.
27 November 1655: Samuel Hartlib told John Evelyn of a new...
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27 November 1655
Samuel Hartlib
told John Evelyn
of a new copying invention: a special ink which enabled extra copies to be damp-pressed off papers written in it.
6 August 1657: John Evelyn was shown a newly invented way-wiser...
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6 August 1657
John Evelyn
was shown a newly invented way-wiser or odometer for a coach.
15 September 1657: John Evelyn inspected a woman from Augsburg...
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15 September 1657
John Evelyn
inspected a woman from Augsburg in Germany who made her living by displaying her abnormal facial hair (as thick on forehead, ears and nose as on most women's heads).
Christmas Day 1657: John Evelyn was at morning Communion service...
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Christmas Day 1657
John Evelyn
was at morning Communion service in a private chapel in London's Covent Garden area, when the whole congregation was rounded up by Puritan soldiers angry at such Christmas observance.
22 November 1658: Cromwell the Protector had a funeral procession...
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22 November 1658
Cromwell
the Protector had a funeral procession across London, lying in effigie in royal robes . . . like a king.
1661: John Evelyn published a pamphlet entitled...
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1661
John Evelyn
published a pamphlet entitled Fumifugium: or, The Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated; a reprint by the National Smoke Abatement Society
in 1933 has an introduction by Rose Macaulay
.
3 May 1661: John Evelyn was shown a wonderfull engine...
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3 May 1661
John Evelyn
was shown a wonderfull engine for weaving silk stockings, said to have been invented at Oxford forty years earlier.
Texts
Evelyn, John. Diary and Correspondence. Editor Bray, William, Routledge, 1906.
Evelyn, John. Numismata. Benjamin Tooke, 1697.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon Press, 1955.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.