![]() He relates how they succumbed to the wiles of quack doctors, fortunetellers, mountebanks, and astrologers in their fear and anxiety of the imminent plague.Ĭity officials are rational and organized concerning the spreading plague, and publish the Orders of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London. ![]() observes that the rich are leaving the city and the poor are being strongly affected by the distemper. After some debate back and forth, he decides that God wants him to remain. starts to wonder whether or not he should leave the city. However, in May and June the numbers of dead begin to swing upwards and H.F. Certain parishes are affected, but cold weather seems to stave off the worst of the plague during the winter. ![]() begins by relating rumors that the plague had come to Holland, and closely follows the bills of mortality. The Journal is a tale of his experiences during the plague that afflicted London in 1665 the work is thus fiction but is peppered with statistics, data, charts, and government documents. ![]() Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year is a first-person, mostly nonlinear narrative told by protagonist H.F., an unmarried saddler whose name is only revealed by his signature at the end of the work. ![]()
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