Daniel Foe was born in London c. 1660, the son of James, a prosperous chandler and Presbyterian dissenter. He lived through the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666, which left only his and two other houses standing in the area. As a general merchant, he was able to buy a country estate and a ship, though he was nearly always in debt. He joined the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, but was pardoned. However, he spent a spell in debtor's prison, after which he travelled Europe and Scotland, returning in 1695, when, now surnamed Defoe, he began serving as a Commissioner of the Glass Duty and, in 1696, running a brick and tile factory. He became a prolific pamphleteer, which led him to the pillory and Newgate Prison. In exchange for his liberty, he agreed to work as an intelligence agent for the Tories, then as a propagandist for the Whigs, and then as a mouthpiece for the Anglo-Scottish Union. His novels and non-fiction books occupied him from the mid 1710s until his death in 1731.
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Preface Acknowledgment Note on the text Defoe's life: a chronological survey Introduction The Selections: from An Essay Upon Projects An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army... From The True-Born Englishman From Legion's Memorial The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters From A Hymn to the Pillory Letter to Robert Harley From A Review A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal Letters to Robert Harley And What if the Pretender Should Come? An Appeal to Honour and Justice From The Family Instructor Letter to Charles de la Faye From Memoirs of a Cavalier From The Complete English Tradesman From The History of the Pyrates: of Captain Bellamy From The Compleat English Gentleman Letter to Henry Baker Notes.
Preface Acknowledgment Note on the text Defoe's life: a chronological survey Introduction The Selections: from An Essay Upon Projects An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army... From The True-Born Englishman From Legion's Memorial The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters From A Hymn to the Pillory Letter to Robert Harley From A Review A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal Letters to Robert Harley And What if the Pretender Should Come? An Appeal to Honour and Justice From The Family Instructor Letter to Charles de la Faye From Memoirs of a Cavalier From The Complete English Tradesman From The History of the Pyrates: of Captain Bellamy From The Compleat English Gentleman Letter to Henry Baker Notes.
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