![]() ![]() Some inhabitants are shown to be brave and caring, but many are understandably plain scared, confused and desperate. In doing so, he presents a vivid picture of a plague epidemic, but also the mean streets of seventeenth-century London. Defoe uses his skills as a journalist, novelist and Londoner to knit together evidence with storytelling. ![]() Its shadowy narrator, known only as ‘H.F.’, seeks to record the terrifying progress of a disease that had no known cause and therefore no known cure. This makes A Journal of the Plague Year, originally published in 1722, an imaginative reconstruction. This book is a fascinating record of trying to cope during the capital’s last plague epidemic of 1665.ĭaniel Defoe was only around five years old during the Great Plague that claimed nearly 100,000 lives. What does he do? Noting a chill in his blood, the man then simply continues his journey through the City of London streets. No neighbours stir and the street is deserted save for the book’s narrator. ‘Oh! Death, Death, Death!’ screams a woman from the window of a house near Cornhill. ![]()
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