Daniel Defoe

The hostile story which has her establishing herself as a confidence trickster, using her sexual charms to prey on men in the manner of fictional characters like her avowed disciple Defoe 's Roxana, is borne...

PA began publishing early in the eighteenth century. She is chiefly known for her short novels, though she turned her hand to poetry and comedy as well. At the height of her career her rate...

CF was a remarkable, indeed a unique, travel-writer about her own country. Travelling in the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, and writing the account that has come down to us in the latter...

Paula R. Backscheider has noted the extraordinary popularity of this three-volume publication as measured in numbers of editions or re-issues: seventy-nine by 1825, eighty-nine by 1840, and in every decade from the 1730s to the...

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...

It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The following year she contributed an introduction to an edition of Roxana by Daniel Defoe (issued under its subtitle of The Fortunate Mistress).

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...

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. She thus flags her opposition both...