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"Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year Reconsidered"

                This article talked about the "trueness" of Defoe's Journal and about the references he used in writing it.  The article states that many people at the time didn't know who wrote the Journal and later found out that the main character,
H. F., wasn't the author, Daniel Defoe was, but that H. F. was Defoe's uncle who really had lived through the plague of 1665.
                Many people believed that this Journal was fact based and a true story, but that wasn't so.  This piece by Defoe is fiction.  This article also examined a bit of Defoe's ancestry and their fairing through the Plague.

MAIN IDEA OF THE ARTICLE:
              Defoe didn't have the first hand knowledge to write this piece and he used other sources for help.  This story is totally fictitious and not to be taken as truth.

WHY THIS ARTICLE IS IMPORTANT:
                   People really believed this was an autobiography of someone who had survived the plague of 1665.  This article proves it is not nonfiction and also tells about the protagonist Defoe used and where this main character came from.  This Journal is a story grounded in truth, but not totally filled with truth.