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A Journal of the Plague Year being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before.
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The base text for this ePub was obtained from the online copy at the
University of Adelaide, but modified to match a
scanned copy of the first edition of 1722.
The layout and typography has been changed to match the first edition, with decorations and banners taken from the pdf and using
Igino Marini's Fell types fonts the 'Double Pica' being the closest match to that found in the original.
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Another source of information on the time is a fictional account, A Journal of the Plague Year, which was written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. He was only six when the plague struck but made use of his family's recollections (his uncle was a saddler in East London and his father a butcher in Cripplegate), interviews with survivors and sight of such official records as were available.
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The do's and don'ts of surviving a deadly epidemic
in a crowded city, something to think about in these
Ebola menaced times, but also a fantastic, if at times
gruesome, read.
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