Fri. 12:06 pm – Living through the misery and disruption are quite a trick, even if you are well. This week, Professor Carol Andrews joins Leigh Rich and P. T. Bridgeport for a discussion of Daniel Defoe’s Journal of a Plague Year. The Plague had again threatened London in the previous year, making the book a best-seller. Join us. 04/24/2020.

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Defoe was five or six years old when the Plague hit London in 1665 and therefore only partly aware or it and its consequences. He constructed his Journal in 1722, using a variety of sources, one of which may have been his uncle, and perhaps fiction.

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