17/18th-century English trader, writer and journalist
Daniel Defoe
Born
Daniel Foe c. 1660 London, England
Died
24 April 1731 London, England
Resting place
Bunhill Fields
Occupation
Journalist, merchant, pamphleteer, spy
Genre
Adventure
Spouse
Mary Tuffley
Daniel Defoe (/dɪˈfoʊ/; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731)[1] was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations.[2] He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.[3] Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted him.
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works[4]—books, pamphlets, and journals—on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism[5] and economic journalism.[6]
^Duguid, Paul (2 October 2006). "Limits of self-organization: Peer production and "laws of quality"". First Monday. 11 (10). doi:10.5210/fm.v11i10.1405. ISSN 1396-0466. Retrieved 17 November 2022. Most reliable sources hold that the date of Defoe's birth was uncertain and may have fallen in 1659 or 1661. The day of his death is also uncertain.
^Backscheider, Paula R. (January 2008) [2004]. "Daniel Defoe (1660?–1731)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7421. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"Defoe", The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 265.
^Backscheider (2008/2004). "Even the most conservative lists of Defoe's works include 318 titles, and most Defoe scholars would credit him with at least 50 more."
^Margarett A. James and Dorothy F. Tucker. "Daniel Defoe, Journalist." Business History Review 2.1 (1928): 2–6.
^Adams, Gavin John (2012). Letters to John Law. Newton Page. pp. liii–lv. ISBN 978-1-934619-08-7. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014.
DanielDefoe (/dɪˈfoʊ/; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous...
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offender with stones, bricks and other dangerous objects. However, when DanielDefoe was sentenced to the pillory in 1703 for seditious libel, he was regarded...
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An autobiographical "Narrative", thought to have been ghostwritten by DanielDefoe, was sold at his execution, quickly followed by popular plays. The character...
Puritan minister Increase Mather dismissed the word as bereft of power. DanielDefoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their...
science fiction retelling of the classic 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by DanielDefoe. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures and filmed in Technicolor...
consumption of gin increased rapidly in Great Britain, especially in London. DanielDefoe commented: "the Distillers have found out a way to hit the palate of...
declared that the storm was God's vengeance for the sins of the nation. DanielDefoe thought it was a divine punishment for poor performance against Catholic...
and Angela Lansbury. It is based on the 1722 novel Moll Flanders by DanielDefoe. In 18th century England, an orphan, Moll Flanders, grows up to become...
a prostitute who began to teach Wild criminal ways and, according to DanielDefoe, "brought him into her own gang, whether of thieves or whores, or of...
hand. The genre takes its name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by DanielDefoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was...
reference to Stilton cheese points to a similar production technique. DanielDefoe in his 1724 work A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain notes:...
membership required.) "The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Pyrates, by DanielDefoe". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 20 October 2022. "Charges of Piracy Against...
sources cite 1749. A biographer of DanielDefoe has suggested that the derivation from "Old Grog" is wrong because Defoe used the term in 1718, but this...
March 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2021. Defoe, Daniel (17 November 2013). Delphi Complete Works of DanielDefoe (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 978-1-908909-42-8...
Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired DanielDefoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. Rogers came from an experienced seafaring family...
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