Daniel Defoe (/dɪˈfoʊ/; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous... 57 KB (7,174 words) - 08:19, 24 April 2024 |
Bunhill Fields (section Daniel Defoe) including John Bunyan (died 1688), author of The Pilgrim's Progress; Daniel Defoe (died 1731), author of Robinson Crusoe; William Blake (died 1827), artist... 39 KB (4,214 words) - 15:08, 26 March 2024 |
Robinson Crusoe (category Novels by Daniel Defoe) Robinson Crusoe (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Written with a combination of Epistolary... 53 KB (6,277 words) - 15:38, 16 April 2024 |
is a work of journalism and science reporting by the English author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism,... 5 KB (617 words) - 01:27, 5 April 2024 |
Captain Charles Johnson (category Daniel Defoe) writer-publishers. Some scholars have suggested that the author was actually Daniel Defoe, but this is disputed. A prime source for the biographies of many well... 12 KB (1,506 words) - 17:00, 26 February 2024 |
Moll Flanders (category Novels by Daniel Defoe) Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her... 22 KB (2,736 words) - 03:34, 13 October 2023 |
Defoe may refer to: Defoe (surname), most notably English author Daniel Defoe Defoe, Webster County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Defoe... 560 bytes (89 words) - 11:34, 5 October 2021 |
John Robert Moore (section Work on Defoe) Robert Moore (1890–1973) was an American biographer and bibliographer of Daniel Defoe. John Robert Moore was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of an Episcopalian... 6 KB (641 words) - 19:24, 15 March 2024 |
A Journal of the Plague Year (category Novels by Daniel Defoe) In 1665, commonly called A Journal of the Plague Year, is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences... 13 KB (1,499 words) - 15:48, 1 April 2024 |
Thomas Harrison. There is no evidence for the persistent attribution to Daniel Defoe or John Somers as authors. The most cited section of the revised (1710)... 6 KB (773 words) - 15:32, 11 March 2024 |
Notable people with the surname include: Annette DeFoe (1890–1960), American silent film actress Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731), English trader, writer, and journalist... 1 KB (188 words) - 19:55, 18 March 2023 |
Brosnan in the title role, based on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's... 9 KB (985 words) - 13:56, 7 March 2024 |
Great storm of 1703 (category Daniel Defoe) declared that the storm was God's vengeance for the sins of the nation. Daniel Defoe thought it was a divine punishment for poor performance against Catholic... 17 KB (1,976 words) - 00:26, 5 April 2024 |
Puritan minister Increase Mather dismissed the word as bereft of power. Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their... 10 KB (1,057 words) - 12:35, 30 April 2024 |
in the upper class. Writers who used Mrs for unmarried women include Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Johnson. The split into... 8 KB (1,019 words) - 03:01, 17 December 2023 |
science fiction retelling of the classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and filmed in Technicolor... 16 KB (2,216 words) - 07:06, 6 April 2024 |
becoming one of the sources of inspiration for the English writer Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk was the son of... 31 KB (3,615 words) - 17:44, 23 April 2024 |
physicist (b. 1561) 1692 – Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (b. 1633) 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English journalist, novelist, and spy (b. 1660) 1748 – Anton thor Helle... 42 KB (4,219 words) - 17:17, 1 May 2024 |
a prostitute who began to teach Wild criminal ways and, according to Daniel Defoe, "brought him into her own gang, whether of thieves or whores, or of... 40 KB (5,655 words) - 09:20, 23 January 2024 |
Morgan Freeman, loosely based on the 1722 novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe. The film, which vastly differs from the original novel, was written... 8 KB (800 words) - 14:30, 18 December 2023 |
sources cite 1749. A biographer of Daniel Defoe has suggested that the derivation from "Old Grog" is wrong because Defoe used the term in 1718, but this... 20 KB (2,603 words) - 04:38, 15 March 2024 |
Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1688) Anonymous, Vertue Rewarded (1693) Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (a.k.a... 6 KB (702 words) - 05:12, 31 March 2024 |
reference to Stilton cheese points to a similar production technique. Daniel Defoe in his 1724 work A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain notes:... 17 KB (1,924 words) - 21:52, 23 April 2024 |