daniel defoe's a journal of the plague year

First, the appalling circumstances and sheer number of deaths made it impossible to keep an accurate account: ‘…’tis certain they died by Heaps, and were buried by Heaps, that is to say without Account’. He gives two main reasons for the underestimates. quotes from the Bills, stating repeatedly that the official data do not accord with his own observations as he walks the city’s streets and that they seriously underestimate the deaths due to plague. Those for the time of this plague were published in 1665 by Ellen Cotes as London’s Dreadful Visitation. The latter appeared weekly with an annual summary.

as his mouthpiece Defoe, who was about five years old at the time of London’s Great Plague of 1665, creates a dichotomy between the observations of H.F and the numbers of deaths published in the Bills of Mortality.

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Daniel defoe's a journal of the plague year