his father wanted him to follow a religious

career and become a minister

Daniel Defoe was a Protestant educated at Newington Green (a but

(1660-1731) Dissenter Dissenting academy) at the age of 23 he became a merchant

and went into business on his own
where he studied
who refused the Church
he portrayed the middle of England economics, geography and
modern languages latin and greek unfortunately he suffered two
class in literature and his
bakruptcies that ruined his
technique became the
reputation
the father of the English basis for the realistic
novel
novel
he joined a rebellion against
the catholic King James II
In 1719 he published his first novel:
Robinson Crusoe. It tells the story of
a shipwreck on a desert island. and liberal party

started to write in
Captain Singleton (1720) he became the leading pamphleteer and
Whig papers
political informant for King William III
Moll Flanders (1722) is about a woman The Review was his
who becomes a thief and a prostitute to but he was also sentenced to
greatest achievement
the pillory three times but
survive. after the publication of his
his friends decorated it
satire The shortest way with
with flowers
Colonel Jack (1722) the Dissenters Defoe was
jailed

so
Roxana (1724)
he denied his Whig ideas
and became a spy for the
they are fictional autobiographies always Earl of Oxford
pretending to be true stories and the plot
his old creditors haunted
lacks of coherence because Defoe neither him until his death
planned his works nor revised them.