A journal plague year

A journal of the plague year timeline

By Dimas Ventura
  • A disastrous Childhood Defoe was born in London

    A disastrous Childhood Defoe was born in London

    the year England restablished itself as monarchy.
  • The darkest days of the city´s bubonic plague epidemic.

    The darkest days of the city´s bubonic plague epidemic.

  • They began to bury the bodies.

    They began to bury the bodies.

  • Period: to

    They had thrown into it 1,114 bodies

    When they were obliged to fill it up, the dobies being the come to lie within six feet of the surface.
  • A DARING JOURNALIST

    A DARING JOURNALIST

    Defoe began writing many political essays working at various time on behalf of both Tory and Whig.
  • his writing landed him in the pillory

    his writing landed him in the pillory

    A wooden device with holes for the prisoner’s head and hands.
  • NOVEL APPROACH

    NOVEL APPROACH

    Defoe did not write his first novel, Robinson Crusoe 1719 until he was nearly 60 years old.
  • DEFOE published the journal of the plague year

    DEFOE published the journal of the plague year

    Just decades after the actual epidemic struck London.
  • Critics had come to appreciate Defoe’s ability

    Critics had come to appreciate Defoe’s ability

    The ability to plumb the depths of humans emotion and to recreate in his fiction and nonfiction all rich detail of real life.