The art of Defoe and Richardson is founded on an awareness of this great change.

In 1692, Defoe was arrested for debts of £ 700 ( and his civets were seized ), though his total debts may have amounted to £ 17, 000 His laments were loud and he always defended unfortunate debtors but there is evidence that his financial dealings were not always honest.

The historicity of this story is questioned by most scholars, although John Robert Moore later said that " no man in England but Defoe ever stood in the pillory and later rose to eminence among his fellow men ".

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.

The same is true of a massive history of the Union which Defoe published in 1709 and which some historians still treat as a valuable contemporary source for their own works.

From 1719 to 1724, Defoe published the novels for which he is famous ( see below ).

Defoe published over 560 books and pamphlets and is considered to be the founder of British journalism.

Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names.

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* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

The locals also claimed that " the same spring is said to turn wood into iron ", but Defoe put this down to the presence of " copperas " in the water.

* July 29 – July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet ( his release is granted in mid-November ).

* February 2 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719.

It is possible that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island.

* Daniel Defoe – author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders ( whose protagonist is born and imprisoned in Newgate Prison )

The original suggestion for the South Sea scheme has sometimes been credited to Daniel Defoe, but it is more likely the idea originated with William Paterson, one of the founders of the Bank of England and the Darien Scheme, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Scotland agreeing to Unite with England.

It is widely acknowledged as having been one of the grandest houses in Scotland, was visited and admired by Queen Victoria, and was written about by Daniel Defoe.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

His Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding ( 1957 ) is an important work in the history of the genre.

academy, which has produced a number of notable players such as John Terry and Jermain Defoe.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

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.

Some of the new king's policies, however, led to conflict with France, thus damaging prosperous trade relationships for Defoe, who had established himself as a merchant.

By 1695 he was back in England, now formally using the name " Defoe ", and serving as a " commissioner of the glass duty ", responsible for collecting taxes on bottles.

After the Tories fell from power with the death of Queen Anne, Defoe continued doing intelligence work for the Whig government, writing " Tory " pamphlets that actually undermined the Tory point of view.

No fewer than 545 titles, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets and volumes have been ascribed to Defoe ( note: in their Critical Bibliography ( 1998 ), Furbank and Owens argue for the much smaller number of 276 published items ).

The book was not authored anonymously and cites Defoe as twice taking credit for being its author.

Defoe began his campaign in The Review and other pamphlets aimed at English opinion, claiming that it would end the threat from the north, gaining for the Treasury an " inexhaustible treasury of men ", a valuable new market increasing the power of England.

Defoe being a Presbyterian who had suffered in England for his convictions, was accepted as an adviser to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and committees of the Parliament of Scotland.

Defoe took pains to give his history an air of objectivity by giving some space to arguments against the Union but always having the last word for himself.

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703 to 1705 became so supine in 1706.

Living during the agitations for the union of England and Scotland, he took part as a Jacobite in the war of pamphlets inaugurated and sustained by prominent men on both sides of the Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh, 1707 ), and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid.

Jonathan Swift was a strong advocate for licensing, and Daniel Defoe wrote on 8 November 1705 that with the absence of licensing, " One Man Studies Seven Year, to bring a finish'd Peice into the World, and a Pyrate Printer, Reprints his Copy immediately, and Sells it for a quarter of the Price ... these things call for an Act of Parliament ".

This was followed by another review by Defoe on 6 December, in which he even went so far as to provide a draft text for the bill.

Daniel Defoe commented: " Unless the Spaniards are to be divested of common sense, infatuate, and given up, abandoning their own commerce, throwing away the only valuable stake they have left in the world, and in short, bent on their own ruin, we cannot suggest that they will ever, on any consideration, or for any equivalent, part with so valuable, indeed so inestimable a jewel, as the exclusive trade to their own plantations ".

* May 1-The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single realm under Queen Anne, with the support of Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.

Daniel Defoe, in his book A tour through the whole island of Great Britain, passed through Baldock and commented: " Here is that famous Lane call'd Baldock Lane, famous for being so unpassable, that the Coaches and Travellers were oblig'd to break out of the Way even by Force, which the People of the Country not able to prevent, at length placed Gates, and laid their lands open, setting Men at the Gates to take a voluntary Toll, which Travellers always chose to pay, rather than plunge into Sloughs and Holes, which no Horse could wade through.

The 2005 – 06 season started as the previous one had ended, with Defoe being preferred to partner Mido in Tottenham's strikeforce.

Daniel Defoe in ' A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain ' ( 1724 – 27 ) said that Clare was " a poor town and dirty, the streets being unpaved.

On it, he sees Daniel Defoe with his ears chopped off, John Tutchin being whipped publicly through western England, two political journalists clubbed to death ( on the same day ), and himself being wrapped in a blanket and whipped by the schoolboys of Westminster ( for having printed an unauthorized edition of the sermons of the school's master, thereby robbing the school's own printer ).

The entire company slowly falls asleep, with the last being Susanna Centlivre ( who had attacked Pope's translation of Homer before its publication ) and " Norton Defoe " ( another false identity created by a political author who claimed to be the " true son " of Daniel Defoe ).

Daniel Defoe ’ s Moll Flanders includes a character who successfully pled her belly despite being “ no more with child than the judge that tried .” John Gay ’ s The Beggar's Opera includes a scene where the character Filch picks up income working as a “ child getter … helping the ladies to a pregnancy against their being called down to sentence ”.

Defoe finished as the West Ham's top scorer in the 2001 – 02 season despite being used primarily as a substitute by manager Glenn Roeder, scoring 14 goals in 39 league and cup appearances, including the only goal in a 1 – 0 away win against Manchester United in December 2001, as West Ham finished seventh in the Premiership.

Defoe committed a significant number of handball offences during the season, being penalised for the offence on nineteen occasions some nine more than any other player.

The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's autobiography.