![]() ![]() His dying words to Anna are to beg her to burn the dresses and cloth. Before he dies, George figures out that the cloth must be the cause of his illness. He dies a few days after catching the illness. The tailor gets ill with a high fever and symptoms of the bubonic plague. ![]() George receives a shipment of cloth from London to make dresses for his clients. To survive, she takes in an itinerant tailor, George Remington Viccars, as a tenant in her home. Anna Frith is an 18-year old widow with two children. How does a plague reach an isolated village? Eyam is a small, poor, rural village located in the rugged hill country of Derbyshire, England. Next, Brooks takes the reader back to the Spring of 1665, before the start of the plague. Michael suffers from a lack of faith in his religion and in his community. Michael, Elinor, and Anna Frith have been the key caregivers in their village. Michael Mompellion is the village rector. Rather than start the tale at the start of the plague, Geraldine Brooks begins near its end,in the fall of 1666. The story is told through from the perspective of Anna Frith, a housemaid and unlikely heroine. ![]() The residents of Eyam, known as the Plague Village, sacrificed themselves: the villagers quarantined the village to prevent the spread of the disease to the rest of the country. The novel was inspired by the true story of an isolated village in England, Eyam, during a plague in the seventeenth century. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is by Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. ![]()
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