Moll Flanders | Moll Flanders

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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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