Library Guides: Year of Wonders: Overview

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Year of Wonders | Introduction

Plague, (Britannica, n.d.)
Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis
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Great Plague of London, (Britannica, n.d.)
Great Plague of London, epidemic of plague that ravaged London, England, from 1665 to 1666... From London the disease spread widely over the country (Britannica, n.d.)
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Plague! : Epidemics and Scourges Through the Ages. (Farndon, 2017)
"The Black Death was the worst outbreak of disease in history... The last massive outbreak was the Great Plague which struck London [and the rest of England] in 1665." (Farndon, 2017. p. 14)
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Farndon, J. (2017). The Great Plague in "Plague! : Epidemics and Scourges Through the Ages". Minneapolis: Hungry Tomato ®. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1428418&site=ehost-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=mggsvic

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"Year of Wonders" Plot summary, (LitCharts, n.d.)
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Year of Wonders - text analysis, (LitCharts, 2018)
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Eyam Museum
A community museum in the village of Eyam that explains the Eyam Plague including what happened and the impact it had on the inhabitants.
Eyam plague: The village of the damned. (Kenna, 2016.)
On 1 November 1666 farm worker Abraham Morten gasped his final breath - the last of 260 people to die from bubonic plague in the remote Derbyshire village of Eyam. Their fate had been sealed four months earlier when the entire village made the remarkable decision to quarantine itself in an heroic attempt to halt the spread of the Great Plague. This is the story of the villagers who refused to run.
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Kenna, D. (2016). Eyam plague: the village of the damned. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35064071