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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as among the founders of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. (Source)

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English trader, writer, and journalist

Born 1661?
Died 24 April 1731

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  • Cover of: The Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders
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  • Cover of: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
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  • Cover of: A Journal of the Plague Year

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  • Cover of: The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    First published in 1805 — 50 editions
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  • Cover of: Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics)
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    First published in 1818 — 41 editions
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  • Cover of: The life, adventures, and pyracies, of the famous Captain Singleton: containing an account of his being set on shore in the island of Madagascar, his settlement there, with a description of the place and inhabitants: of his passage from thence, in a Paraguay, to the main land of Africa, with an account of the customs and manners of the people : his great deliverances from the barbarous natives and wild beasts : of his meeting with an Englishman, a citizen of London, among the Indians, the great riches he acquired, and his voyage home to England : as also Captain Singleton's return adventures and pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others.
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  • Cover of: Robinson Crusoe: By Daniel Defoe

    First published in 2011 — 36 editions
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    First published in 1901 — 36 editions
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  • Cover of: Memoirs of a cavalier: or, A military journal of the wars in Germany and the wars in England
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  • Cover of: The life, adventures, & piracies of the famous Captain Singleton.
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  • Cover of: The consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon.
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English trader, writer, and journalist

Born 1661?
Died 24 April 1731

Subjects

Fiction, Politics and government, Early works to 1800, Castaways, Shipwreck survival, Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character), History, Juvenile fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Shipwrecks, Islands, Crusoe, robinson (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Commerce, Plague, Religious Dissenters, Description and travel, Great Britain, Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714, Children's fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Foreign relations, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Church of England, Pamphlets

Places

Great Britain, England, London, France, Europe, Atlantic Ocean, Scotland, Spain, London (England), Ying guo, 1665 London, Madagascar, Sweden, Ireland, Massachusetts, Netherlands, North Carolina, South Carolina, Women, America, Araby, Araby bazaar, Carolina, Florida, Foreign countries

People

Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731), Henry Sacheverell (1674?-1724), John Churchill Marlborough Duke of (1650-1722), William III King of England (1650-1702), Duncan Campbell (1680?-1730), James Prince of Wales (1688-1766), Andrew Snape (1675-1742), Benjamin Hoadly Bishop of Winchester (1676-1761), Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), John Trenchard (1662-1723), Robert Harley Oxford Earl of (1661-1724), House of Hanover, John Tutchin (1661?-1707), Matthew Tindal (1653?-1733), Robert Harley Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), Anne Queen of Great Britain (1665-1714), Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761), Christian Cavenaugh Davies Mrs. (1667-1739), Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), James Butler Ormonde Duke of (1665-1745), John Toland (1670-1722), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Robert Harley Oxford 1st earl of (1661-1724), Robert Walpole Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Benjamin Calamy (1642-1686)

Time

1702-1714, 18th century, 1689-1702, 1714-1727, 17th century, Anne, 1702-1714, Jin dai, Union, 1707, 1603-1714, 1648-1715, 1665, Civil War, 1642-1649, 1660-1714, 1727-1760, 19th century, William and Mary, 1689-1702, 1688-1815, Charles II, 1660-1685, 1689-1714, 1701-1800, Charles XII, 1697-1718, London, 1665, 1702-1713, 1706, 1727

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Alternative names

  • Charles Johnson
  • Di, Fu
  • (ying) Di, fu
  • Foe De
  • Daniel Daniel Defoe
  • Daniel DeFoe
  • DANIEL DEFOE
  • Defoe Daniel
  • Daniel "Defoe "
  • Daniel DEFOE
  • (ying) Di, fu (Defoe, Daniel
  • Daniel Defoë
  • Daniel (1661?-1731) Defoe
  • Д. Дефо
  • Даниель Дефо
  • daniel defoe

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January 27, 2025 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
June 28, 2023 Edited by Сергей Малышев Edited without comment.
June 27, 2023 Edited by tmanarl merge authors
November 16, 2022 Edited by AgentSapphire merge authors
May 3, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternative names