Fiction · 1722
A Journal of the Plague Year
Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London
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1661–1731 · Enlightenment
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.
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