At the Sign Of the Sugared Plum
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'You be going to live in the city, Hannah?' Farmer Price asked, pushing his battered hat up over his forehead. 'Wouldn''t think you'd want to go there . . . Times like this, I would have thought your sister would try and keep you away.' Hannah is oblivious to Farmer Price's dark words, excited as she is about her first ever trip to London to help her sister in her shop 'The Sugared Plum', making sweetmeats for the gentry. Hannah does not however get the reception she expected from her sister Sarah. Instead of giving Hannah a hearty welcome, Sarah is horrified that Hannah did not get her message to stay away - the Plague is taking hold of London.
Based on much research, Mary Hooper tellingly conveys how the atmosphere in London changes from a disbelief that the Plague is anything serious, to the full-blown horror of the death carts and being locked up - in effect to die - if your house is suspected of infection.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter One: The first week of June, 1665
- Chapter Two: The second week of June
- Chapter Three: The third week of June
- Chapter Four: The last week of June
- Chapter Five: The first week of July
- Chapter Six: The second week of July
- Chapter Seven: The third week of July
- Chapter Eight: The fourth week of July
- Chapter Nine: The first week of August
- Chapter Ten: The second week of August
- Chapter Eleven: The third week of August
- Chapter Twelve: The fourth week of August
- Chapter Thirteen: The first week of September
- Glossary
- Notes on London's Plague, 1665
- Note on the author
- Also by Mary Hooper
- Recipes from the Seventeenth Century
- Imprint
