changing self in year of wonders

The Year of Wonders is a result of the author Geraldine Brooks explorations through the English countryside where she stumbled across eem AKA the plague town. In the villages museum located in the local church she found that in 1666 the village was convinced by visionary young minister to quarantine themselves within the village to arrest the spread if the plague. During this year two thirds of the village’s population died. During her research into the events during that terrible year she came across this entry in the young ministers diary:
“My maid continued in good health; which was a blessing, for had she quailed, I should have been ill set…”
Which in Geraldine Brooks own words said. Trying to imagine who this woman could have been, how she may have lived, and what she might have felt provided the voice for my novel.
The theme of changing self is very much represented in the “Year of Wonders”. Changing self is the process which everybody i...