James Alan Downie

Standard Name: Downie, James Alan
Used Form: J. A. Downie

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Birth Daniel Defoe
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Downie, James Alan. “Defoe’s Birth”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
xlv
, No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 2013, pp. 225-30.
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
Scholarship on women's writing, as it advanced by leaps and bounds in the later twentieth century, generally attributed this work to DM . But the attribution rests largely on a perhaps opportunistic claim made in...

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Downie, James Alan. “Defoe’s Birth”. The Scriblerian, Vol.
xlv
, No. 2, pp. 225-30.
Downie, James Alan. Jonathan Swift: Political Writer. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, pp. 309-26.
Downie, James Alan. Robert Harley and the Press: Propaganda and Public Opinion in the Age of Swift and Defoe. Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Downie, James Alan. “What If Delarivier Manley Did Not Write The Secret History of Queen Zarah?”. Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Vol.
5
, No. 3, pp. 247-64.