A parcel of patterns
By: Jill Paton Walsh.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Plague -- England -- Eyam -- Juvenile literature.; Plague -- England -- Eyam -- Fiction.; Eyam (England) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.; Eyam (England) -- History -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction.
Description: Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to prevent further spread of the disease, and how three-fourths of them died before the end of the following year.