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Cherry & Violet: A Tale of the Great Plague

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Anne Manning
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About This Book

The narrative follows a girl raised on London Bridge and her companion through domestic reminiscences and city life as the plague arrives. Episodes blend everyday pleasures — water-parties, Chelsea buns, garden visits, and courtships — with mounting anxieties: shadowed houses, ominous signs, sickness, and communal strain. Flight and refuge in the countryside, encounters with superstition and ghosts, and acts of friendship and charity test the characters' resolves. The story culminates in the burning of the city, leaving survivors to reckon with loss, faith, and endurance while the text underscores moral reflection, simple virtues, and the consolations of community amid catastrophe.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

From Drawings by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton.
Frontispiece.
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 Frontispiece
 
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Title-Page.
Designed by Herbert Railton		 iii
 
Motto.
Designed by Herbert Railton		 iv
 
Old London Bridge.
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 1
 
“My Father’s Shop was on the East Side”
Drawn by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton		 6
 
“One and the same Cradle.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 10
 
“In the Arbour at the Top of Our House.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 20
 
“The Back-Room in which he slept was a Lean-to stuck against the Main Wall.”
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 22
 
“This Comicality drew Crowds of People.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 31
 
“Gossiping with Hugh Braidfoot.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 42
 
“The Gay Party set out.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 63
 
“Looked out on the Bridge.”
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 66
 
“I found her on her Knees.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 82
 
“And so the Good Man went.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 105
 
“We let our windows.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 116
 
“And now a shocking Sight was to be seen at the Bridge Gate.”
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 122
 
“Houses were shut up.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton		 136
 
“Keeping the Gates with much Jealousy.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 140
 
“I made for Cheapside.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton		 158
 
“A Party of disorderly Young Men.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 166
 
“There he lay.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 179
 
“We had Words about it.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 212
 
“I saw some Women passing through the Trees.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 222
 
“The Old Garden with the Iron Gate.”
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 231
 
“An old Red-Brick House.”
Drawn by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton		 248
 
“A Bowling-Green of wonderful fine Turf.”
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 260
 
In the Squire’s Garden.
Drawn by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton		 264
 
Cherry’s wedding leaving the Church.
Drawn by John Jellicoe		 279
 
“St. Paul’s was now in a Blaze.”
Drawn by Herbert Railton		 294