This new biography of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist, scholar and
intellectual virtuoso, is the first account to make full use of
Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library
in 1995. This crucial source evokes a broader and richer picture of
Evelyn, his life and his friendships, than permitted by his own
celebrated diaries. Gillian Darley provides a rounded portrait of
Evelyn's eighty-five years, his family life first at Sayes Court,
Deptford, and later at Wotton, in Surrey, his exile in Paris, his
interests and his preoccupations. Evelyn lived through some of
England's most tumultuous history, through five reigns, the civil
wars, the Restoration and the Revolution of 1688. He was author or
translator of countless publications, from pamphlets to large folio
editions, on varied contemporary issues. He tackled questions
ranging from smoke pollution and the environment, gardening and
architecture, to town planning and popular science, libraries and
fashion, politics, trade and the visual arts. Endlessly curious and
engaged into very old age, Evelyn found nothing unworthy of
interest, and this absorbing biography demonstrates the liveliness
of his hugely busy mind. Gillian Darley has been writing on
architecture and landscape since the mid 1970s. She was
architectural correspondent of the 'Observer', 1990-4. Her 'John
Soane: An Accidental Romantic' (1999), also published by Yale
University Press, was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for Biography.
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