James Gifford<p>24 July 1834 – Edward Taylor Fletcher contracted cholera in the pandemic and wrote about it in 1885. I edited this piece during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it changed how I read everything the man ever wrote… (the book is free online, so take a peak!) </p><p><a href="https://read.aupress.ca/read/of-sunken-islands-and-pestilence/section/8870137a-009c-4f40-9e1a-4a19885a2c06#ch1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">read.aupress.ca/read/of-sunken</span><span class="invisible">-islands-and-pestilence/section/8870137a-009c-4f40-9e1a-4a19885a2c06#ch1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/CanLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanLit</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EdTaFl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdTaFl</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>