Daniel Defoe Born

Moll Flanders and Roxana[edit]

Also in 1722, Defoe wrote Moll Flanders, another first-person picaresque novel of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th century England. The titular heroine appears as a whore, bigamist and thief, lives in The Mint, commits adultery and incest, yet manages to retain the reader's sympathy.
Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional (yet "drawn from life") characters, not least in that they are women. The latter narrates the moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan.

Death[edit]

Bunhill Fields monument detail
Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, (today Bunhill Fields Burial and Gardens), Borough of Islington, London, where a monument was erected to his memory in 1870.^[23]
Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names.^[24]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels

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  Robinson Crusoe (1719) – Defoe sold his interests to the publisher
  
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  The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
  
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  The King of Pirates (1719)
  
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  Captain Singleton (1720)
  
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  Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720)
  
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  A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
  
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  Colonel Jack (1722)
  
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  Moll Flanders (1722)
  
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  Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)
  

Non-fiction

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  The Storm (1704) - a description of the worst storm to hit Britain in recorded times, including eyewitness accounts.
  
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  The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (1705)
  
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  Atlantis Major (1711)
  
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  The Family Instructor (1715)
  
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  Memoirs of the Church of Scotland (1717)
  
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  The History Of The Remarkable Life of John Sheppard (1724) - describing Sheppard's life of crime, and the miraculous escapes from prison for which he was notable.
  
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  A Narrative Of All The Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard (1724) – written by or taken from Jack Sheppard himself before he was hanged, apparently by way of conclusion to the Defoe work.
  
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  The Pirate Gow (1725) – an account of John Gow
  
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  A Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain, Divided into Circuits or Journies (1724–1727)
  
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  The Political History of the Devil (1726)
  
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  A Friendly Epistle by way of reproof from one of the people called Quakers, to T. B., a dealer in many words", 1715 (attrib. Defoe)
  

Essays

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  An Essay Upon Projects (1697)
  
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  The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702)
  
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  Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
  
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  The Complete English Tradesman (1726)
  
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  An Essay Upon Literature (1726)
  
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  Mere Nature Delineated (1726)
  
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  Conjugal Lewdness (1727)
  
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  A Plan of the English Commerce (1728)
  

Poems

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  The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr (1701)
  
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  Hymn to the Pillory (1703)