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A Journal of the Plague Year: Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

Book by Daniel Defoe; J.M. Dent, 1908

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Plague--London, 1665

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in the year of our Lord 1665 that the plague began in our city of London, after we were warned by the great plague in Holland in the year I664, and the...long before that appeared in the view of London, and struck some amazement upon the...
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A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Publick as Private, Which Happened in London during the Last Great Visitation in 1665

Book by Daniel Defoe, Louis Landa; Oxford University Press, 1998

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Fiction, London (England)--History--17th Century--Fiction, Plague--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...removal of the heavy Judgment of Plague and Pestilence. The fast was to be kept in the cities of London and Westminster and places adjacent...Wednesday of each month until the plague ended. At the same time a form...Bell, The Great Plague in London , 1665 (rev. edn., I95I...
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The Plague Pamphlets of Thomas Dekker

Book by F. P. Wilson, Thomas Dekker; Clarendon Press, 1925

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Plague--England--London

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...l. 11. there dyed of the Plague but 39. The number of plague-deaths from the week ending...returned 917 deaths from the plague for the week ending 21 July 1603...The total number of deaths in London in 1603 and 1625 amounted to...
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Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology

Book by Christine M. Boeckl; Truman State University Press, 2000

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Plague In Art, Plague In Literature

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...Francesco Petrarca, 26 pneumonic plague, 7, 12, 15, 18, 26, 69...xiii Poussin, Nicholas, Plague at Ashdod, 39, 48, 50,64...fourteenth century, 74 and plague, 74-75, 86 Q quarantines...133 Rescued from the Plague, London 1655, Frank Topham, 148 Ripa...
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Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown

Book by James C. Mohr; Oxford University Press, 2005

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Chinatown (Honolulu, Hawaii)--History--19th Century, Fires--Hawaii--Honolulu--History--19th Century, Plague--Hawaii--Honolulu--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...See Robert Barde, Prelude to Plague: Public Health and Politics...Marilyn Chase, The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian...Metapopulation Dynamics of Bubonic Plague, Nature, Vol. 407 (2000...The Hong Kong Plague of I894 (London, r998), 48. The plant used...

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Journal Articles on: plague of london

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Novel Streets: The Rebuilding of London and Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year

Journal article by Cynthia Wall; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 30, 1998

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A Journal of the Plague Year (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cities and towns--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Defoe, Daniel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., London, England--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the rebuilding of London and Defoes A Journal of the Plague Year. by Cynthia Wall...as A Journal of the Plague Year helped rewrite a "modern" London into being, making...successfully escape both London and the plague--a story that occupies...
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English Plague and New World Promise(*)

Journal article by Rebecca Totaro; Utopian Studies, Vol. 10, 1999

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Bacon, Francis (Philosopher)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cavendish, Margaret--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mather, Cotton--Criticism, interpretation, etc., More, Thomas, Saint--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plague--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Utopias in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...under sheriff" of London, More knew about...devastating effects of plague and the current...after the Great Plague and Fire of London. In Cavendishs...Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern...Sacred: Image and Plague in Renaissance Italy...Butchering in Medieval London." Speculum 8...
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The Plague of Utopias: Pestilence and the Apocalyptic Body

Journal article by Elana Gomel; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000

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Apocalyptic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Epidemics--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Plague in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...is it susceptible to plagues seductive promise...together" in death. The plague is not a sign of redemption...fantasy The Scarlet Plague, Jack London wrote the short story...loosing "a score of plagues" (112) that successfully...necessary and desirable. London envisions a democratic...
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"Read Your Fall": The Signs of Plague in the Last Man

Journal article by Young-Ok An; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 44, 2005

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Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Plague--Analysis, Shelley, Mary--Criticism and interpretation, The Last Man (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...memory of the 1665 London Plague still resonating...Decameron based on the plague that ravaged Florence...Gottfried, the plagues victims manifested...Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins...7.) Seeing the plague as the enemy to...Probably Great Plague of London" in pen and watercolor...
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Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague 1894-1901

Journal article by Sheldon Watts; Journal of Social History, Vol. 42, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Plague Ports: the Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague 1894-1901 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague 1894-1901. by Sheldon Watts...Myron Echenberg (New York and London, New York University Press, 2C07...Room of the British Library in London, he would have found that the...

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Magazine Articles on: plague of london

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Plague: A New Thriller of the Coming Pandemic

Magazine article; Foreign Policy, November 2009

Subjects:

Epidemics--Portrayals, Epidemics--United States, Novels--Authorship, Novels--Social aspects, Plague--Portrayals

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Plague: A New Thriller of the Coming Pandemic...needed novel would have to be called Plague. Everyone has heard of plague and knows...Newtons flight to the countryside from plague-infested London in 1665. All this begs the question...
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Moral Rorschachs: '1984' and 'The Plague' after Half a Century

Magazine article by David L. Kirp, Andrew Koehler, Jaime Rossi; The Nation, Vol. 266, May 4, 1998

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1984 (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Plague (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

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...are what our nightmares are made of. Plagues and People In 1948 memories of Nazi terror were vivid, and The Plague contains scenes that could have been...Its like Albert Camus said in `The Plague: `Plagues and wars always afflict us but they...to "bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people, so that some memorial...done them might endure." In "When Plagues End," a New York Times Magazine essay...
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London's Mascot Rodent: Since the Great Plague, Rats Have Played a Prominent Role in the Life of the Capital

Magazine article by Stephen Smith; New Statesman, Vol. 131, July 15, 2002

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London, England--Natural history, Rat control--History, Sewer systems--England

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...mascot rodent: since the Great Plague, rats have played a prominent...who worked in the sewers of London who could kill rats with his...the Raker, who fell into a London cesspit in 1326 and drowned...flushers of Wick Lane in east London. Needless to say, they like...
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A Terrible Viciousness Is Born: Once, Refugees Were Just Scroungers. Now, They Are Also Terrorists and Plague Carriers. as War Approaches and Migration Grows, Old British Restraints Are Loosening

Magazine article by Nick Cohen; New Statesman, Vol. 132, February 24, 2003

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Emigration and immigration--Laws, regulations, etc., Emigration and immigration--Political aspects, Migrations of nations, Refugees--Laws, regulations, etc., Refugees--Political aspects, Xenophobia--Political aspects

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...scroungers. Now, they are also terrorists and plague carriers. As war approaches and migration...uncovering of a suspected "ricin factory" in London, it pushed the press over an edge on...not only scroungers and terrorists but plague carriers, like the rats that brought...
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Boredom and Despair in W1: I Have No Money, and No Company Apart from a Plague of Insubordinate Mice. I Would Take a Bath-Only It Might Make the Flat Cave In

Magazine article by Nicholas Lezard; New Statesman, Vol. 138, April 20, 2009

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Boredom--Influence, City and town life--Economic aspects, City and town life--Social aspects, Financial management--Methods, Financial management--Social aspects, Urban life--Economic aspects, Urban life--Social aspects

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...and No Company Apart from a Plague of Insubordinate Mice. I Would...cheery works, "Im tired of London, and tired of life;/Ive...written those words during a bleak London Easter, when the accumulation...this column "Down and Out in London" when the main action, if...

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Newspaper Articles on: plague of london

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Rats 'Not to Blame' for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed on by People, Says Historian

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2011

Subjects:

Historians, Plague, Sloane, Barney

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was originally thought the plague arrived in England in the...winter. If it had been bubonic plague - which is spread by rats...Black Death really was bubonic plague. GODS PUNISHMENT Medieval...Plague-ridden: An image of London in 1349
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Kylie Would Take a Shot of the Bubonic Plague If It Turned Back Time.So Why Not Admit It?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 13, 2011

Subjects:

Kidman, Nicole, Plague

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Kylie Would Take a Shot of the Bubonic Plague If It Turned Back Time.So Why Not Admit It? Byline: MARY...stilettos now that shes pushing on. shed take a shot of the bubonic plague if she thought it might turn back the tide of time - as would...
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Rats 'Not to Blame' for Spread of Black Death; Plague Was Really Passed on by People, Says Historian

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 19, 2011

Subjects:

Sloane, Barney

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...witnessing relatives flung in plague pits. Kilkenny monk Friar John Clyn, whose writings on the plague are one of the sole primary...000 people had died from the plague in Dublin - around 100 per day...etching that shows plague-hit London back in 1349
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Typical - I Need a Doc, and Plague Hits London

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 7, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Typical - I Need a Doc, and Plague Hits London. Byline: SOPHIA MONEY-COUTTS...lost it immediately in the move to London and lazily neverbothered re-registering...than face the vomiting hordes of London. I mulled over my options.Chinese...
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9-9-FINE; EXCLUSIVE Cash Penalties to End Hoax Plague

Newspaper article; The People (London, England), January 4, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

9-9-FINE; EXCLUSIVE Cash Penalties to End Hoax Plague. Byline: By MARC BAKER LOUTS who make hoax 999 calls are to face massive fines and Asbos. More than pounds 40million A YEAR...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: plague of london

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Plague

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PLAGUE any contagious, malignant, epidemic disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague (or Black Death), both forms of the...Europe and Asia. The great plague of London in 1665 is recorded in many works of...
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London , City, England

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...reign of Elizabeth I brought London to a level of great wealth...civil war. In 1665, the great plague took some 75,000 lives. A...Cathedral. Much of the business of London as well as literary and political...Westminster Bridge was opened, London Bridge , first built in the...
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Defoe, Daniel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...London. Early Life and Works The son of a London butcher, and educated at a Dissenters...Moll Flanders (1722), the story of a London prostitute and thief, and an account of the 1665 great plague in London entitled A Journal of the Plague Year...
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Holbein, Hans

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and The French Ambassadors (both: National Gall., London). In 1536 he became court painter to Henry VIII and...remained in Basel. At 46 Holbein died of the plague in London. In addition to his paintings, Hans Holbein the younger...
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Restoration , in English History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...control. When Monck marched on London with his army, opinion had...on May 25, 1660, entering London amid rejoicing four days later...the Dutch Wars, by the great plague (1665) and the great fire of London (1666), by the birth of the...

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