[bit.listserv.history] More plagues!

HSW100U@ODUVM (Harold Wilson) (02/02/90)

Our students like Daniel Defoe's _A Journal of the Plague Year_ on London in
the 1660s.  The American literature is enriched by such works as
John H. Powell's _Bring Out Your Dead! - The Great Plague of Yellow Fever
in Philadelphia in 1793_ and John Duffey's _Epidemics in Colonial America_.

BRIANW@YORKVM2 (Brian Whittaker) (02/02/90)

Harold Wilson suggested Daniel Defoe's _A Journal of the Plague Year_.
May I suggest Defoe's less well known but equally interesting _Due
Preparations for the Plague_, which is somewhat richer in data for the
social historian. I have found both books to be quite popular with
third-year English students.

Brian Whittaker
Atkinson College, York University
Downsview, Ontario, CANADA