Two of Britain’s most famous writers have left us accounts of the plague years. They were Daniel Defoe, journalist, pamphleteer, author of ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and general man about town and Samuel Pepys, an upper-middle-class civil servant with an eye for the ladies and the ear of those who mattered who did very well out of the plague year 1665.
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