| 词条 | Deb Willet |
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Deb Willet was the third of seven children born to the Bristol merchant Robert Willet and his wife Elizabeth. She was baptised in December 1650.[2] In late September 1667 Pepys was introduced to Willet[3] and she was employed as a companion for Pepys's wife, Elisabeth, from 1 October 1667,[4] with whom she attended the theatre. In late October 1668 Willet began an intimate relationship with Samuel Pepys. Elisabeth Pepys discovered her husband with Willet and after a few weeks the maid was dismissed. Pepys wrote in his diary that his wife "coming up suddenly, did find me imbracing the girl con [with] my hand sub [under] su [her] coats; and endeed I was with my main [hand] in her cunny. I was at a wonderful loss upon it and the girl also...." Following this event, he was characteristically filled with remorse, but (equally characteristically) continued to pursue Willet after she had been dismissed from the Pepys household.[5] Pepys later gave Willet money, sought her out at her new home, and kissed her. His wife threatened to attack the "girle" on learning this and Pepys was forced to renounce Willet in writing. Deb Willet was not the only personal servant with whom Pepys was intimate, but she appears to have been the one with whom he was most smitten. In the next-to-last sentence of Pepys's 10-year diary one reads, "my amours to Deb are past."[6] In 2006 Kate Loveman reported that Deb Willet remained in London after leaving the Pepys household, marrying a theology graduate named Jeremiah Wells in 1670.[7] Pepys later helped Wells obtain a position as a ship's chaplain. The couple had two daughters, Deborah (b. 1670) and Elizabeth (b. 1672).[8] Mrs Wells died in 1678 and her husband followed a year and a half later. References1. ^See a discussion in {{cite book | author = Tomalin, Claire | title = Samuel Pepys, The Unequalled Self | year = 2002 | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf | isbn = 0-375-41143-7 }} 2. ^{{cite journal | author = Loveman, Kate | title = Further Information on Samuel Pepys and Deb Willet after the Diary | journal = Notes & Queries | year = 2011 | volume = 58 | issue = 3 | pages = 388–390 | doi = 10.1093/notesj/gjr118 }} 3. ^See diary entry for 27 September 1667 4. ^See diary entry for 1 October 1667 5. ^Mystery of Pepys' affair solved BBC News 24 14 October 2006 6. ^See diary entry for 31 May 1669. 7. ^{{cite journal | author = Loveman, Kate | title = Samuel Pepys and Deb Willet after the Diary | journal = The History Journal | year = 2006 | volume = 49 | pages = 893–901 | url = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=468773| doi = 10.1017/S0018246X06005565 }} 8. ^Loveman (2011), 388 Further reading
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