The Great Plague that devastated England in 1665 and is said to have killed about 20 percent of London's population, failed to bring out the better instincts in people. In fact, it only exacerbated the class struggle (the poor died in far greater numbers than the upper class). And when it came to that other struggle " the one between the sexes …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:07PM on April 14, 2011