Abstract

The remote facts of history are brought into daylight by an eminent American journalist and writer Geraldine Brooks. One of her works March honored her with attaining Pulitzer Prize. Year of Wonders, a fictional work is inspired by the true story of the villagers of Eyam, summer of 1990. Generously, she spent some time with Eyam�s local historian, John. G. Clifford, author of the informative Eyam Plague (1665-1666). She visited the small museum and skimmed the books which were greatly about Eyam, but the lore remains scant. She rendered her efforts to reveal the forbidden incidents to the spectators. Brooks says about her villagers as: �The account was so touching and terrible that it took root in my imagination� (Afterword 305).

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