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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer. - Daniel Defoe Attribution: Daniel Defoe (1660–1731), British author, poet, journalist. repr. In Works, ed. Keltie (1869). “The True-Born Englishman,” pt. 1, l. 360-363 (1701).

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Daniel Defoe

Titles by Daniel Defoe:

• Moll Flanders
• Robinson Crusoe

eNotes:

• Daniel Defoe (Neoclassicism)
• Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders)
• Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders)
• Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe)

Salem on History:

• Daniel Defoe

Encyclopedia:

• Defoe, Daniel (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Daniel Defoe (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• Daniel Defoe (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Daniel Defoe (Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries)
• Daniel Defoe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Daniel Defoe (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

Literary Criticism:

• Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))
• Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Daniel Defoe dies
• Daniel Defoe publishes The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
• Daniel Defoe publishes The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
• Daniel Defoe is born