The Journal of Mrs. Pepys: Portrait of a Marriage

Elizabeth Pepys decides to keep a journal of her private thoughts as well as a record of her activities and the activities of those around her in the year 1659 in London, and this is that story.

She marries young, and theirs is a marriage of both intense love and searing pain. Her husband, Sam, is, at times, passionate and cooly indifferent, and she, a woman of that time, is subject to his whims.

It is through Elizabeth's eyes that we see the events of the day including the London Fire and the Great Plague as well as the clothing fashions and the food preferences and the scandals of the time.

I'd love to read the book author Sara George relied on in writing this book, The Diary of Samuel Pepys.