In the canon
The Storm
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1704
- Pages
- Pages 250
The wind that crossed England one November night in 1703 peeled the lead from the roof of Westminster Abbey, killed the Bishop of Bath and Wells and his wife in their bed under a falling chimney, and took the Eddystone Lighthouse off its rock with the man who built it still inside. Daniel Defoe was newly out of Newgate, where the pillory had put him, and he did the thing nobody had thought to do: he advertised in the newspapers for anyone who had lived through that night to write to him, and then he printed the letters with the names and the parishes still attached.
No Pen can describe it, no Tongue can express it, no Thought conceive it, unless some of those who were in the Extremity of it
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