Novels

Death Novels Robinson Crusoe: Published in his late

Defoe died on 24 April 1731,

probably while in hiding
from his creditors. He was
often in debtors' prison. The
cause of his death was
labelled as lethargy, but he
probably experienced a which is undersigned by the initials
stroke.
Defoe is known to have used
at least 198 pen names.
Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720) is
set during the Thirty Years' War
and the English Civil War.
A Journal of the Plague Year :
can be read both as novel and as
non-fiction. It is an account of the
Great Plague of London in 1665,
"H. F.", suggesting the author's
uncle Henry Foe as its primary
source.
fifties, this novel relates the story of a man's
shipwreck on a desert island for twenty-
eight years and his subsequent adventures.
Throughout its episodic narrative, Crusoe's
Daniel Defoe
struggles with faith are apparent as he
bargains with God in times of life- Writer, journalist, merchant
threatening crises, but time and again he
turns his back after his deliverances.
Captain Singleton: (1720), an adventure
story whose first half covers a traversal of By
Africa which anticipated subsequent
discoveries by David Livingstone and
whose second half taps into the
Marisol De Sedas
contemporary fascination with piracy.

A house where Defoe once lived,

Non-fiction near London, England
-An Essay Upon Projects (1697)
-The Storm (1704)
-Atlantis Major (1711)
-The Family Instructor (1715)
-Memoirs of the Church of Scotland (1717)
-The History of the Remarkable Life of
John Sheppard (1724)
-A Narrative of All The Robberies, Escapes,
&c. of John Sheppard (1724)
- A tour thro' the whole island of Great
Britain, divided into circuits or journies
- A New Voyage Round the World (1724)
-The Political History of the Devil (1726)
-The Complete English Tradesman (1726)
-A treatise concerning the use and abuse of
the marriage bed... (1727)

Born: Daniel Foe

c. 1660
London, England

Died : April 24, 1731 (aged 70)

London, England

Resting place: Bunhill Fields

Genre: Adventure
 Early life
Contents
1 Early life
Daniel Foe (his original name)
2 Education
was probably born in Fore
3 Business career
Street in the parish of St Giles
4 Writing
Cripplegate, London. Defoe
5 Death
later added the aristocratic-
6 Selected works
sounding "De" to his name, and
-Novels
on occasion claimed descent
-Non-fiction
from the family of De Beau
-Pamphlets or essays in prose
Faux. His birthdate and
-Pamphlets or essays in verse
birthplace are uncertain, and
sources offer dates from 1659 to
1662, with the summer or early
autumn of 1660 considered the
most likely.
Education
Defoe was educated at the Rev.
James Fisher's boarding school
in Pixham Lane in Dorking,
Surrey. His parents were
Presbyterian dissenters, and
around the age of 14, he was
sent to Charles Morton's
dissenting academy at
Newington Green, then a village
just north of London, where he
is believed to have attended the
Dissenting church there.
Title page from Daniel
Daniel Defoe in the pillory, 1862 Defoe's: The History of the
line engraving by James Charles
Union of Great Britain dated
Armytage after Eyre Crowe. 1709 and
Edinburgh by the Heirs of
Anderson
Business career
Defoe entered the world of business as a
general merchant, dealing at different times in
hosiery, general woollen goods, and wine. His
ambitions were great and he was able to buy a
country estate and a ship (as well as civets to
make perfume), though he was rarely out of
debt. He was forced to declare bankruptcy in
1692. On 1 January 1684, Defoe married Mary
Tuffley at St Botolph's Aldgate. She was the
daughter of a London merchant, receiving a
dowry of £3,700—a huge amount by the
standards of the day. With his debts and
political difficulties, the marriage may have
been troubled, but it lasted 47 years and
produced eight children.
Glasgow Bridge as Defoe might have seen it in the
18th century.
Writing
As many as 545 titles have
been ascribed to Defoe,
ranging from satirical
poems, political and
religious pamphlets, and
volumes. (Furbank and
Owens argue for the much
printed in smaller number of 276
published items in Critical
Bibliography (1998).)
Pamphleteering and
prison
Defoe's first notable publication
was An Essay Upon Projects, a series
of proposals for social and economic
improvement, published in 1697.
From 1697 to 1698, he defended the
right of King William III to a standing
army during disarmament, after
the Treaty of Ryswick (1697) had
ended the Nine Years' War (1688–
1697). His most successful poem, The
True-Born Englishman (1701),
defended the king against the
perceived xenophobia of his enemies,
satirising the English claim to racial
purity. 
"Wherever God erects a
house of prayer the Devil
always builds a chapel
there; And 't will be found,
upon examination, the
latter has the largest
congregation."
— Defoe's The True-Born
Englishman, 1701
Memorial to "Daniel De-
Foe", Bunhill Fields, City
Road, Borough of Islington,
London