{"id":3770,"date":"2015-09-29T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:18:15","slug":"five-facts-about-daniel-defoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/five-facts-about-daniel-defoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Facts About Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DanielDaniel Defoe (1660 \u2013 April 24,\u00a01731) was an English writer most famous for his novels\u00a0Robinson Crusoe <\/em>and Moll Flanders<\/em>. Here are five facts about him that you may not know:<\/p>\n

1 – His name at birth was Daniel Foe. He later changed his name to the more aristocratic-sounding Defoe.<\/p>\n

2 – He lived through both the Great Plague of London (1665) and the Great Fire of London (1666).<\/p>\n

3 – For a time he worked as a general merchant.\u00a0Some of the goods he dealt with were\u00a0hosiery, general woolen goods, and wine. \u00a0His business was not successful and he went bankrupt in 1692.<\/p>\n

4 – In 1684 he married Mary Tuffley. They had eight children.<\/p>\n

5 –\u00a0\u00a0Defoe’s first literary endeavors were writing political pamphlets and as a journalist. \u00a0In 1701 he wrote\u00a0The True-Born Englishman. \u00a0<\/em>The\u00a0satirical poem\u00a0defended King William III, who was Dutch, against\u00a0William’s enemies who pushed for\u00a0“English racial purity”.<\/p>\n

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Robinson Crusoe<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Daniel Defoe<\/a><\/p>\n

Novels by Daniel Defoe<\/h2>\n
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  • Robinson Crusoe<\/li>\n
  • The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe<\/li>\n
  • Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world<\/li>\n
  • Memoirs of a Cavalier<\/li>\n
  • Captain Singleton<\/li>\n
  • A Journal of the Plague Year<\/li>\n
  • Colonel Jack<\/li>\n
  • Moll Flanders<\/li>\n
  • Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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