Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
5: 392-411
Sir Christopher Wren
Standard Name: Wren, Sir Christopher
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Jane Wiseman | She was a friend and correspondent of George Farquhar
and the future Susanna Centlivre
; the fact that she addressed a poem to Aphra Behn
and that Abel Boyer
published letters by her may indicate... |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
is nostalgic about the past here, but also somewhat confused. During her chosen period Rebecca and her contemporaries bore no resemblance to the young women of the present century, for they neither despised nor... |
| Literary Setting | Rose Macaulay | The parents of the heroine, Barbary, are divorced. She grows up running wild in the maquis country of Provence, centre for the Resistance to German occupation, in which she becomes involved. Sent to London... |
| Textual Features | Frances Reynolds | With this rejection of the straight line, or of the phallic, she turns to feminine sensibility on which to ground her principles of taste or of aesthetics. The remarkable result must be called a proto-feminist... |
Timeline
2-17 September 1666: The Great Fire of London almost entirely...
National or international item
2-17 September 1666
The Great Fire of London almost entirely destroyed the medieval city.
29 March 1669: Christopher Wren (whose ambitious plans for...
Building item
29 March 1669
Christopher Wren
(whose ambitious plans for redesigning and rebuilding London after the Great Fire of September 1666 were already well-known) was appointed Surveyor of the King's Works.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Christopher Wren
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