The Great Plague in London in 1665
Author | : Walter George Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Walter George Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Thomson, George.
Author | : A. Lloyd Moote |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2006-09-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0801892309 |
An intimate portrait of the Great Plague of London. In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending "horrible windes and tempests." And in the remote, squalid precinct of St. Giles-in-the-Fields outside the city wall, Goodwoman Phillips was pronounced dead of the plague. Her house was locked up and the phrase "Lord Have Mercy On Us" was painted on the door in red. By the following Christmas, the pathogen that had felled Goodwoman Phillips would go on to kill nearly 100,000 people living in and around London—almost a third of those who did not flee. This epidemic had a devastating effect on the city's economy and social fabric, as well as on those who lived through it. Yet somehow the city continued to function and the activities of daily life went on. In The Great Plague, historian A. Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C. Moote provide an engrossing and deeply informed account of this cataclysmic plague year. At once sweeping and intimate, their narrative takes readers from the palaces of the city's wealthiest citizens to the slums that housed the vast majority of London's inhabitants to the surrounding countryside with those who fled. The Mootes reveal that, even at the height of the plague, the city did not descend into chaos. Doctors, apothecaries, surgeons, and clergy remained in the city to care for the sick; parish and city officials confronted the crisis with all the legal tools at their disposal; and commerce continued even as businesses shut down. To portray life and death in and around London, the authors focus on the experiences of nine individuals—among them an apothecary serving a poor suburb, the rector of the city's wealthiest parish, a successful silk merchant who was also a city alderman, a country gentleman, and famous diarist Samuel Pepys. Through letters and diaries, the Mootes offer fresh interpretations of key issues in the history of the Great Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, religious, and government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources sustaining those who remained. Underscoring the human dimensions of the epidemic, Lloyd and Dorothy Moote dramatically recast the history of the Great Plague and offer a masterful portrait of a city and its inhabitants besieged by—and defiantly resisting—unimaginable horror.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1722 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles J. Shields |
Publisher | : Facts On File |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fires |
ISBN | : 9780791063248 |
A detailed history of two disasters that befell London, England: the Great Plague of 1665 in which it is estimated that at least 70,000 died, and the Great Fire of 1666, which destroyed four-fifths of the city.
Author | : Stephen Porter |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445656868 |
The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the medieval Black Death of the 1340s to the Great Plagues of the seventeenth century.
Author | : William Boghurst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kate McArthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780170179966 |
A terrible disease hit London in 1665, and caused the deaths of around 100,000 people. It was called the Great Plague of London, and only a huge fire could stop it.
Author | : Pamela Oldfield |
Publisher | : Scholastic UK |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0702303054 |
The Great Plague is a thrilling story of a young girl during the epidemic of 1665. It's 1665, and Alice is looking forward to being back in London. But the plague is spreading quickly, and as each day passes more red crosses appear on doors. When her aunt is struck down with the plague, she is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever... Alice's chilling diary brings alive one of the darkest moments in British history: the Great Plague of 1665-1666. Experience history first-hand with My Story in this all-new look!
Author | : Evelyn Lord |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2014-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300173814 |
During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. In this title, the author focuses on Cambridge, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : LA CASE Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1800 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The History of the Plague in London is a historical novel offering an account of the dismal events caused by the Great Plague, which mercilessly struck the city of London in 1665. First published in 1722, the novel illustrates the social disorder triggered by the outbreak, while focusing on human suffering and the mere devastation occupying London at the time. Defoe opens his book with the introduction of his fictional character H.F., a middle-class man who decides to wait out the destruction of the plague instead of fleeing to safety, and is presented only by his initials throughout the novel. Consequently, the narrator records many distressing stories as experienced by London residents, including craze affected people wandering the streets aimlessly, locals trying to escape the disease infected city, and healthy families forced to confine themselves behind closed doors. Apart from these second-hand accounts, the narrator also provides a thorough explanation on how quarantine was managed and kept under control. In addition, he seeks to debunk all squalid rumors which have produced a false interpretation of the bubonic plague. However, not everything is bleak in the account, as the novel offers some affirmative evidence that humanity is still capable of charity, kindness and mercy even in the midst of chaos and confusion. Although regarded as a work of fiction, the author engrosses with his insertion of statistics, government reports and charts which further validate the novel as a precise portrayal the Great Plague.