36 results for smallpox for Health

Anna, Lady Miller

The year after her father died, the child Anna or Anne Riggs was dangerously ill with smallpox.
Montagu, Elizabeth. “MSS MO 1-6923”. Huntington Library Manuscripts.
1749

Dorothy Osborne

DO , now in London to prepare for her wedding to Sir William Temple , was ill with smallpox.
Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press.
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Laetitia Pilkington

LP survived smallpox as a small child.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
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Lady Rachel Russell

She herself suffered an attack of measles the same year as her miscarriage, and one of smallpox in 1660.

Sarah Savage

SS was attacked by smallpox in 1688, but survived. As she grew older her sight deteriorated until she could not read a word without glasses (which made her consider that she ought to spend more time in prayer and meditation instead of reading).
Williams, Sir John Bickerton, and Sarah Savage. Memoirs of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Savage. Holdsworth and Ball.
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Sir Philip Sidney

As a boy Philip survived an attack of smallpox that left him badly scarred—a fact not evident from the paintings of him.

Catherine Sinclair

CS 's face was permanently scarred by her father's amateur smallpox inoculation. Her great-niece Lucy Walford, however, felt very strongly that this fact pushed her to develop her talents and personality, making her a universal favourite.
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate.
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Lady Arbella Stuart

She had survived a bout of smallpox about eighteen months before this.

Alice Thornton

She mentions having measles, and two attacks of smallpox (which would mean that one of them must have been chickenpox).
Anselment, Raymond A. “Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Sources of Alice Thornton’s Life”. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 135-55.
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Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge.
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Anne Wharton

She was said to have both smallpox (which her sister had survived four months before, too early to pass it to her directly) and measles.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, pp. 1-124.
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Mehetabel Wright

The Wesley family suffered from smallpox.
Wesley, Susanna. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. Editor Wallace, Charles, Oxford University Press.
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