The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year

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Preface

1. Marilyn Chase,The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
   (New York, 2003 ).
   2 .The Portable Voltaire,ed. Ray Redmond (New York, 1949 ), 524 – 30 , 560.


2. Two recent contributions are Laurie Garrett,The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging
   Diseases in a World out of Balance(New York, 1994 ), and Gina Kolata,Flu: The Story of
   the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It(New
   Yo r k , 1999 ).


3. A work of fiction drawn around the Great Plague’s devastation of the remote Der-
   byshire village of Eyam has recently been published: Geraldine Brooks,Year of Wonders:
   A Novel of the Plague(London, 2001 ). The documentary film The Great Plaguefeatures
   poor residents of a London alley in 1665 ; it was produced for television by Juniper Com-
   munications, U.K., and edited by John Toba and Justin Hardy.


4. In summing up the structural side of responses to plague, Paul Slack notes hope-
   fully: “It is only by looking more closely at the realities on the ground, at the reactions
   of the governed as well as of the governors, that we can fully appreciate the obstacles” to
   order and relief during a plague epidemic. Paul Slack, “Metropolitan Government in
   Crisis: The Response to Plague,” in A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay, eds.,The Making of
   the Metropolis: London, 1500 – 1700 (London, 1986 ), 73. However, in his magisterial study
   of the subject, Slack is cautious about the prospect of such an inquiry: “How then did
   those who were infected and those who were left behind cope? The historical record
   only hints at the range of possible answers.” Slack,The Impact of Plague in Tudor and
   Stuart England(Oxford, 1985 ; reprint with corrections, 1990 ), 20.


5. James S. Amelang, trans. and ed.,A Journal of the Plague Year: The Diary of the
   Barcelona Tanner Miguel Parets, 1651 (Oxford, 1991 ), 7 , 111 n. 21 , calling on historians to
   shift their focus from “more objective themes and sources... to personal chronicles, au-
   tobiographies, and emotions of citizens of bygone times.”

Prologue

1. Hodges’ and Boghurst’s medical accounts of the Great Plague of 1665 have been
   published: Nathaniel Hodges,Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in Lon-
   don(London, 1720 ); William Boghurst,Loimographia: Or an Experimentall Relation of
   the Plague,ed.Joseph Payne (London, 1894 ). Turner’s account books and letters are at

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