Enlightenment
Daniel Defoe
1661–1731
Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) was born in London, the son of a tallow chandler, and was in turn a merchant, a bankrupt, a pamphleteer pilloried for satire, a government agent, and one of the first journalists. He was nearly sixty when he published Robinson Crusoe (1719); Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders (1722), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Roxana followed in quick succession.
Sources: Bibliomancer editorial note, written from standard reference facts (dates, places, principal works).
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Books by Daniel Defoe
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