![]() ![]() ![]() Additionally, it provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes received by the narrator. In the book, Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, identifying specific neighbourhoods, streets, and even houses in which events took place. ![]() F.’, was a saddler who lived in the Whitechapel district of East London. and is probably based on the journals of Defoe’s uncle, Henry Foe, who, like ‘H. Defoe was only five years old in 1665 when the Great Plague took place, and the book itself was published under the initials H. Presented as an eyewitness account of the events at the time, it was written in the years just prior to the book’s first publication in March 1722. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings, and with frequent digressions and repetitions. It is an account of one man’s experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city. Never made publick before LONDON 1722Ī Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. Written by a CITIZEN who continued all the while in London. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 1722īeing Observations or Memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. ![]()
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