Andrew Golding: A Tale of the Great Plague

The narrator, Lucia Dacre, records how she and her sister Althea are displaced by family losses and compelled to journey from their rural home into towns and then London as an epidemic spreads. The account follows encounters with relatives and ministers whose convictions and disputes shape the household's fate, the arrival and trials of Andrew Golding, and the sisters' struggle for shelter, moral guidance, and survival amid fear and social upheaval. Episodes move from village sermons and quarrels to desperate lodging in empty houses and an eventual passage abroad, threading themes of faith, duty, social conflict, and the human costs of catastrophe.