Captain Charles Johnson
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Captain Charles Johnson was the British author of the 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, whose identity remains a mystery. No record exists of a ca
Daniel Defoe 1706
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
Captain Charles Johnson
…Charles Johnson" is generally considered a pen name for one of London's writer-publishers. Some scholars have suggested that the author was actually Daniel Defoe, but this is disputed. A prime source for the biographies of many well known pirates of the era, Johnson gave an almost mythical status to the more…
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