Moll Flanders (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Foe
- First Published: 1722
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- 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
Places Discussed
*Colchester. Town in southeastern England’s Essex district, in which Moll’s narrative begins by moving quickly through her early years. After being orphaned, she is taken into a home in Colchester in which she first is seduced by one brother and then married by the other, in a loveless relationship.
*London. England’s capital city and mercantile center, to which Moll goes after her husband dies. Now wiser about the ways of the world, she schemes to make a rich match for herself, only to connect with a gentleman-tradesman who proves to be as much a...
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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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