Daniel Defoe
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Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress. He has been seen as one of the earliest
1714 in literature
…Anne Dacier – Des Causes de la corruption du goût (On the Causes of the Corruption of Taste, in defence of Homer) Daniel Defoe – A Secret History of the White-Staff (reporting allegations against Harley) William Diaper – An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book…
Portrait of Defoe in the style of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862)
Title page from Daniel Defoe's: The History of the Union of Great Britain dated 1709 and printed in Edinburgh by the Heirs of Anderson
Glasgow Bridge as Defoe might have seen it in the 18th century