It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

Daniel Defoe in the pillory, 1862 line engraving by James Charles Armytage after Eyre Crowe ( painter ) | Eyre Crowe

Thanks to books such as The Letters of Daniel Defoe ( edited by G. H. Healey, Oxford 1955 ), which are readily available, far more is known about his activities than is usual with such agents.

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* Daniel Defoe fiction at The Literature Network

* The Journeys of Daniel Defoe around Britain ( from a Vision of Britain )

* Life of Daniel Defoe at luminarium. org

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