daniel defoe's diary, called a journal of the plague year, described the great plague of london.
daniel defoe's diary, called a journal of the plague year, described the great plague of london.
whose diary, called a journal of the plague year, describes the great plague of london?
daniel defoe
a journal of the plague year









































a journal of the plague year is a novel by daniel defoe, first published in march 1722.









































this novel is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the great plague or the bubonic plague struck the city of london. the book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.
a journal of the plague year
the plague returned at intervals with varying virulence and mortality until the early 19th century. in england, for example, the plague returned in 1360–63 killing 20% of londoners and in 1369 killing 10–15%. in the 17th-century outbreaks were a series of "great plagues": the great plague of seville (1647–52); the great plague of london (1665–66); and the great plague of vienna (1679). in its virulent form, after the great plague of marseille in 1720–22, the great plague of 1738 (which hit eastern europe), and the russian plague of 1770–1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from europe though lingering in egypt and the middle east. by the early 19th century, the threat of plague had diminished, but it was quickly replaced by a new disease. the asiatic cholera was the first of several cholera pandemics to sweep through asia and europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
second plague pandemic