The Storm

By Daniel Defoe (2016)

The Storm
or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and
Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest,
both by Sea and Land

Fact of the Day

English bishop St. Wulfstan was said to have performed a number of miracles, including curing a woman of arthritis by writing a letter, cursing a tree to death that had offered shade to gamblers, and preaching to the slave-traders of Bristol so well that they abandoned their business.

Quote of the Day

"What recreation tooke I? How lawfull was it? ... Was it not affected with too much delight? "

~ Questions from the seventeenth-century puritan guidebook for women, 'A Fountaine of Tears'

On This Day

939 Æthelstan, first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

1666 French watchmaker, Robert Hubert, was executed for starting the Great Fire of London, even though he wasn't in England at the time.