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Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders

Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders

by SianRees (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

Daniel Defoe's fictional heroine Moll Flanders is famous for her criminal and sexual adventures, racily portrayed n big and small screen romps as bawdy wench, fallen woman and proto-feminist trailblazer. But who was she? And what world did she really inhabit? To answer these questions Sian Rees takes her readers on a journey of literary and historical detection, across continents, cultures and centuries. Following Moll's tumultuous life, the story moves from Jacobean England to Jamestown, Virginia; from the English Civil War to the struggles of the Powhatan Indians; and from the metropolis of London to the hamlet of Annapolis in the early eighteenth century. Introducing us to a rogues' gallery of real-life versions of Moll , it is as fast-moving and rich in incident as Defoe's great novel.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 05 Jul 2012
ISBN 10: 184595193X
ISBN 13: 9781845951931
Book Overview: A journey of literary and historical detection, across continents, cultures and centuries, to uncover the fictional personality of Defoe's Moll Flanders

Media Reviews
What Rees does in this engaging book is to give us the extra historical information we need to create a richer context for Moll's story Guardian Lively and bracing...With Rees's companionship, I finally see the point of Moll The Times Rees is adept at describing such real-life individuals whose exploits may have contributed something to the adventures of Defoe's fictional character...an engaging enough companion Sunday Times Ably and entertainingly Rees pictures Moll's world of Stuart London. She traces the sources of her remarkable story and the overlaps between Defoe's life and that of his heroine. This is a readable, informative and colourful account Daily Express Rees is a lucid, intelligent guide Sunday Herald
Author Bio
Sian Rees's acclaimed historical works include the best-selling The Floating Brothel; The Shadows of Eliza Lynch; The Ship Thieves and most recently Sweet Water and Bitter: the Ships that Stopped the Slave Trade. She lives in Brighton.