Jennifer on All Things Considered (NPR)
Listen to Jennifer talk about “The Speckled Monster” with Michele Norris on NPR’s “All Things Considered” (November 6, 2003)…
Read MoreJennifer 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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