Daniel Defoe

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Standard Name: Defoe, Daniel

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth 's children's...
Textual Production Mary Astell
In the extended title MA calls herself moderate, dutiful, and loyal, ironically insisting that she is not Mr. L—y, or any other Furious Jacobite whether Clergyman or Layman.
Astell, Mary. The First English Feminist. Editor Hill, Bridget, St Martin’s Press.
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She thus flags her opposition both...
Textual Production Claire Luckham
CL 's musical adaptation of Defoe 's novel Moll Flanders was staged in 1986. More recently she has performed a valuable service by providing the catalyst for the delivery to radio audiences of much women's...
Textual Production George Eliot
Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...
Textual Production Nadine Gordimer
NG issued a collected volume of short stories, Friday's Footprint, whose title emblematises, through allusion to Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe, a key moment in colonial contact between different races.
In fact, the footprint...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
Like a Daniel Defoe or Samuel Richardson , she professes to be only the editor of her protagonist's own text.
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
A Spy upon the Conjuror (19 March 1724; three more issues followed) is the first of EH 's several pamphlets on the deaf-mute fortune-teller Duncan Campbell . It was advertised more than a year before...
Textual Production Willa Cather
The following year she contributed an introduction to an edition of Roxana by Daniel Defoe (issued under its subtitle of The Fortunate Mistress).
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ 's next novels were Doubtful Joy, 1935, The Phoenix Nest, 1936, Robert and Helen, 1944, and Young Enthusiasts, 1947 (titled from Samuel Johnson 's description of the ambitious young scholar...
Textual Features Delarivier Manley
Queen Zarah purports to be translated, not from French but from Italian. In it England is Albigion. The critical preface is in fact a translation of part of Morvan de Bellegarde 's Lettres curieuses...
Textual Features Olaudah Equiano
The book moves into vivid narrative with OE 's abduction, his mostly tolerable experiences as a slave in Africa (constantly moving on until he reached a tribe who were morally corrupted by whites), and his...
Textual Features Ann Fisher
The Young Scholar's Delight, or Familiar Companion, in dialogue form, treats geography, astronomy, and other sciences and arts, as well as (in the tradition of Defoe 's Family Instructor) religion and Bible study...
Textual Features Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
This book launched the genre of the false memoir (the form of, for instance, Defoe 's best-known novels, though the characters in French examples are generally high-born). It features the first female picaro in French...
Reception Eliza Haywood
Love in Excess, with its arguably six editions by 1725, has repeatedly been likened to Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe and Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels as bestselling English fictions before Pamela. It has never shared their status, partly...
Reception Eliza Haywood
For publishing it EH was arrested, and 800 copies of her work were impounded. It is not known how long she remained in custody, but this incident seems to have headed her off from specifically...

Timeline

Spring to autumn 1665: The Great Plague (probably bubonic plague...

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Spring to autumn 1665

The Great Plague (probably bubonic plague or pasteurella pestis) raged in London. Londoners' experience is well-known from the accounts of Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe ; in some other parts of Britain 1666 was plague year.

13 April 1685: Two Scotswomen, Margaret Lachlane aged sixty-three...

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13 April 1685

Two Scotswomen, Margaret Lachlane aged sixty-three and Margaret Wilson aged around twenty-five, were sentenced to execution by drowning for being Covenanters : they were tied to stakes in Wigtown Bay while the tide came in.

January 1697: Daniel Defoe proposed in his early publication...

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January 1697

Daniel Defoe proposed in his early publication An Essay upon Projects (advertised for sale this month) the founding of an academy for women.

1698: On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin...

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1698

On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin from a slow consumption, his widow, Abigail , took over the business in name; she had in fact been running it for several years.

1 December 1702: Daniel Defoe's The Shortest Way with the...

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1 December 1702

Daniel Defoe 's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters was anonymously published.

3 November 1703: Mary Raby was executed at Tyburn for crimes...

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3 November 1703

Mary Raby was executed at Tyburn for crimes against property.

19 February 1704: Daniel Defoe issued the first number of his...

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19 February 1704

Daniel Defoe issued the first number of his long-running, one-man periodical, A Review of the State of the British Nation,, which began under the title A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France.

March 1705: Daniel Defoe published The Consolidator:...

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March 1705

Daniel Defoe published The Consolidator: an ingenious allegorickRelation or satiricalscience fiction about a trip to the moon on a flying machine whose 513 feathers coincide with the number of MPs in Parliament .

8 September 1705: On this day, according to Defoe's True Relation...

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8 September 1705

On this day, according to Defoe 's True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal (published next year), the phantom of a young woman who had just died paid a call on a friend.

2 February 1709: Sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after...

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2 February 1709

Sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after surviving more than four years as a castway on Juan Fernandez island.

11 June 1713: Daniel Defoe issued the last number of his...

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11 June 1713

Daniel Defoe issued the last number of his periodical, A Review.

31 March 1715: Daniel Defoe published The Family Instructor,...

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31 March 1715

Daniel Defoe published The Family Instructor, which explores in fictionaldialogue form religious and educational issues arising in families.

18 September 1718: The thrice-weekly White-hall Evening-Post...

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18 September 1718

The thrice-weeklyWhite-hall [sic] Evening-Post began publishing, editing by Daniel Defoe ; it ran until 10 April 1739, after which its title was used, with variations, for other papers.

25 April 1719: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Life...

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25 April 1719

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a novel with elements of spiritual autobiography.

28 November 1720: At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne...

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28 November 1720

At a trial in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Anne Bonny and Mary Read were found guilty of piracy and sentenced to hang. However, after each claimed that she was pregnant, both were spared the death penalty.

Texts

Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Editor Landa, Louis, Oxford University Press, 1969.
Defoe, Daniel. Essay Upon Projects. Printed by R. R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1697.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Defoe, Daniel. The Earlier Life and Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe. Editor Morley, Henry, George Routledge, 1889.