A Journal of the Plague Year
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665, common
Title page of the original edition in 1722
Illustration of corpse collection during the 1665 plague
Daniel Defoe Kneller Style
Portrait of the author, Daniel Defoe
Second plague pandemic
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The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed up to half of the population of Eurasia in the
A Journal of the Plague Year
…the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city, as part of the larger centuries long Second plague pandemic. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings, and with frequent digressions and repetitions. Presented as…
Great Plague of London in 1665
Plague Column in Vienna was erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679
The Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 killed 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces.
Contemporary engraving of Naples during the Naples Plague in 1656