Defoe's Moll Flanders
May 1, 1722
The creator of Crusoe published another pseudo-autobiography: the confessions of a Newgate-born pickpocket who had been whore, thief, wife, and American planter, and now found religion. Readers devoured it. The English novel had added a second species: the picaresque testimony from the lower depths, told in the voice of a woman who survived.
In context
Also in 1722 (3 other events on record)
- Death of the Kangxi Emperor · East Asia · Politics
- Fall of Isfahan to the Ghilzai Afghans · Middle East · War
- Roggeveen Sights Easter Island · Oceania · Exploration
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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