Daniel Defoe

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...

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...

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.

Like a Daniel Defoe or Samuel Richardson , she professes to be only the editor of her protagonist's own text.

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...