Resource Guide:
'Year of Wonders' by Geraldine Brooks

On September 5, 2024 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of Year of Wonders. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to plague in early modern England.

LISTEN to related podcast episodes

• Episode 154: Writing About the Plague in Shakespeare’s England

LEARN about plague in Shakespeare’s time

• Living through the plague times – Excerpt: ‘Death By Shakespeare’ by Kathryn Harkup
• Beyond a Cure for Plague
• Recipe Books, Plague Cures and the Circulation of Information
• Recipes for dealing with the plague in Shakespeare’s England
• Of Counts and Causes: The Emergence of the London Bills of Mortality

REVISIT past Folger book clubs that explored the effects of disease on society

• Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
  • About
  • Resource Guide
  • Collection Connections
• Warm Bodies, by Isaac Marion
  • About
  • Resource Guide
  • Isaac Marion’s ‘Warm Bodies’: Containing and Curing Plague