Moll Flanders (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Foe
- First Published: 1722
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: England and the American colonies
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, North America or North Americans, Prisoners, Colonies or colonization, Love or romance, Marriage, 1940’s, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Ambition, Money, Theft, Adventure, Outlaws
- Locales: Virginia, London, England, American colonies, Essex, England
Characters Discussed
Moll Flanders, an English adventuress (known also as Mistress Betty, May Flanders, and Mrs. Flanders), one of the most engaging female rogues in all literature. She relates her entire life story, from infancy to final years of repentance, with frankness and full detail. As the daughter of a woman convicted of a felony and transported to Virginia, Moll spends her early years in the company of some gypsies, then with several families who treat her well. By the age of fourteen, Moll is attractive, intelligent, resourceful, and womanly. Her first affair is...
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Daniel Defoe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Daniel Defoe (Censorship)Daniel Defoe (Dictionary of World Biography)Daniel Defoe (Long Fiction)
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