Daniel Defoe

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Milestones

Probably around Autumn 1660
DD , novelist, pamphleteer, Dissenter, and journalist, was born in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, London.
J. A. Downie has made a case for a much earlier birthdate, around 1644.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Downie, James Alan. “Defoe’s Birth”. The Scriblerian, No. 2, pp. 225 - 30.
24 April 1731
DD , novelist, pamphleteer, Dissenter, and journalist, died in Ropemaker's Alley, London.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.

Biography

Birth and Career

Probably around Autumn 1660
DD , novelist, pamphleteer, Dissenter, and journalist, was born in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, London.
J. A. Downie has made a case for a much earlier birthdate, around 1644.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Downie, James Alan. “Defoe’s Birth”. The Scriblerian, No. 2, pp. 225 - 30.