This lecture by Susannah Fullerton OAM will take place on Wednesday, 14 November  2018 at 8:00 pm in the Central Gallery of TMAG, Hobart

The diary of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) has long been considered the greatest diary in the English language.  Historians have found it invaluable, but it is also a superb work of literature and the record of an extraordinary man.

 

Founder of the modern English navy, President of the Royal Society, Member of Parliament, author of books on the navy, talented musician and composer and lover of a very large number of women, Samuel Pepys delighted in many aspects of Restoration London and recorded them all in his diary.

“And so to bed …”, Susannah Fullerton’s talk on Pepys, tells of his experience of the Plague and the Great Fire, his constant womanising, his theatre-going and his dinners.  Susannah loves to share her enthusiasm for this most human and delightful of diarists.

 

Please note the special time of Wednesday 14th of November for this lecture.

 

Further information can be found on Susannah’s website

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     And so to bed …

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Susannah Fullerton, OAM, FRS(N), has been president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, this country’s largest literary society, for the past 22 years. She is the author of several books on Jane Austen and gives many talks around the world about her favourite novelist.

Susannah also gives talks at libraries, schools, the Art Gallery of NSW and State Library of NSW on many other famous writers, such as Pepys, Oscar Wilde, the Brontës, Dickens, Trollope and many more.  She has written Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia about famous authors visiting Australia, and has also written and recorded two audio CDs, Finding Katherine Mansfield and Poetry to Fill a Room.  Susannah also leads literary tours to the UK, France, Italy, Scandinavia, NZ and America for Australians Studying Abroad.