Jennifer on The Diane Rehm Show (NPR)
Jennifer talks about smallpox and “The Speckled Monster” with Diane Rehm on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show” (June 20, 2003)…
Read MoreHow I Came to Write about Smallpox
I’m often asked how I came to write about smallpox. I found Lady Mary in a literary footnote fantasizing about Circassian slaves…
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Smallpox: the “Speckled Monster”
“The speckled monster” is an old name for smallpox. Photo by J. B. Byles, in T. F. Ricketts, “The Diagnosis of Smallpox” (London, 1908)…
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