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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · rank, class, and social order · quartan ague · mourning and grief · john evelyn birth at wotton · family character description · eleanor evelyn (née stansfield) · education of children · education and the training of the young · childhood and upbringing · child prodigy
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A biographical section turns to Evelyn’s childhood and early education, stating he was born at Wotton on 31 October 1620 and describing his parents’ temperaments and character in detail.
compilation from an actual diary, kept in imitation of his father, from the age of 11 years onwards and down even to within one month of his death in 1706. The second son and the fourth child of Richard Evelyn of Wotton in Surrey, and of his wife Eleanor, daughter of John Stansfield ‘of an ancient honorable family (though now extinct) in Shropshire,’ he was born at Wotton on 31st. October, 1620. His father, ‘was of …
Evelyn mourns the death of his young son Richard in January 1658 after severe quartan ague, gives an extraordinary account of the child’s learning and piety, and links the grief to Evelyn’s writings and translations on children’s education and gardening.
given himself to literature, although his third work was published in 1656, _An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Cerus de Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse_. In January, 1658, heavy sorrow fell upon Evelyn by the death of his younger son, an infant prodigy, and a sad and wonderful example of a young brain being terribly overtaxed. ‘After six fits of a quartan ague with which it pleased God to v…