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Historical Background Online
Eighteenth-Century
Resources
Marvelous gathering of sites about the 18-century - the best place to start
Eighteenth-Century
Studies
Rich collection of 18-century writings online
Benjamin
Franklin: A Documentary History
Very useful for studying Boston in the period covered by The Speckled Monster
Nathaniel
Hawthorne, "Lady Eleanore's Mantle" (1851)
Short story about Boston's 1721 smallpox epidemic
Eighteenth-Century
London: The Urban Contexts of Crimes Tried at the Old Bailey
A brief sketch of 18th-century London
Samuel
Pepys' London (Museum of London virtual exhibition)
Life in London just one generation before Lady Mary