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A disastrous Childhood Defoe was born in London
the year England restablished itself as monarchy. -
The darkest days of the city´s bubonic plague epidemic.
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They began to bury the bodies.
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Period: to
They had thrown into it 1,114 bodies
When they were obliged to fill it up, the dobies being the come to lie within six feet of the surface. -
A DARING JOURNALIST
Defoe began writing many political essays working at various time on behalf of both Tory and Whig. -
his writing landed him in the pillory
A wooden device with holes for the prisoner’s head and hands. -
NOVEL APPROACH
Defoe did not write his first novel, Robinson Crusoe 1719 until he was nearly 60 years old. -
DEFOE published the journal of the plague year
Just decades after the actual epidemic struck London. -
Critics had come to appreciate Defoe’s ability
The ability to plumb the depths of humans emotion and to recreate in his fiction and nonfiction all rich detail of real life.