Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe
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Themes

• Biography
• Works
• Influence/Impact

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Biography

• 1660 born in London as Daniel Foe
• 1682 he became a merchant
• 1684 married Mary Tuffley
• 1685 fighting in the Duke of Monmouths
  rebellion against James II.
• 1688 Glorious Revolution, William III.
  became king

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Biography

• 1692 went bankrupt
• 1702 The Shortest way with the Dissenters
• 1703 put in the pillory and then to Newgate
  Prison

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Biography

• worked as a secret agent for Robert Harley and
  as a political journalist
• 1704 The Review, newspaper until 1713
• 1719 started writing novels
• 1731 died because
• of a stroke

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Works

• Robinson Crusoe
• first published in 1719
• story of a castaway who spends 28 years on a
  remote island
• inspiration sailor Alexander Selkirk
• adapted into many movies

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Works

• Moll Flanders
• was written 1722 (novel)
• about the fall and redemption
  of a woman
• A Journal of the Plague Year
• first published in 1722
• about a mans experience of the plague in 1665
  in London

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Further works

• The True-Born Englishman (1701)
• The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• Captain Singleton (1720)
• Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe
• Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720)
• Captain Jack (1722)
• The Fortunate Mistress / Roxana (1724)

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Influence

• father of journalism
• helped to unify England and Scotland
• Defoe is considered to be the founder of
  realistic English novels using simple prose

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