The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

" Crusoe " may have been taken from Timothy Cruso, a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth ( 1695 ), before dying at an early age – just eight years before Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe.

In the early 18th Century Yarmouth, as a thriving herring port, was vividly and admiringly described several times in Daniel Defoe's travel journals, in part as follows:

It is clear from this piece and other writings, that while the political portion of Defoe's life was fairly dominant, it was by no means the only aspect.

Two sequels followed, Defoe's The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and his Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the angelick world ( 1720 ).

) Yet another of the remarkable events in Defoe's life, the storm was the subject of his book The Storm.

Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.

Although Defoe's protagonist ( Robinson Crusoe ) chooses to leave his home and set out into an unexplored and dangerous life abroad, Winkfield's protagonist's ( Unca Eliza Winkfield ) trials and adventures are forced upon her.

In exchange for such cooperation with the rival political side, Harley paid some of Defoe's outstanding debts, improving his financial situation considerably.

The first steel pen is said to have been made in 1803 ( but in Daniel Defoe's book " A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain-1724-26 " Letter VII he wrote: ' the plaster of the ceilings and walls in some rooms is so fine, so firm, so entire, that they break it off in large flakes, and it will bear writing on it with a pencil or steel pen ).

In addition to Defoe's description, the Mint is referred to by most 18th-century British satirists, including Alexander Pope in his Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and, indirectly, by John Gay in Trivia.

Moore's study, and his reputation as a Defoe scholar, was so convincing that most libraries recataloged A General History under Defoe's name.

Defoe's description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and logistics, making it an intriguing if not particularly gripping read.

* Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was supposedly the autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spent 28 years on a remote island.

The English novel has generally been seen as beginning with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and Moll Flanders ( 1722 ), though John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 )

The poetry of the time was highly formal, as exemplified by the works of Alexander Pope and the English novel became popular, with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Samuel Richardson's Pamela.

A translator from English to French, he translated Swift's " Tale of a Tub " into Dutch and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and is credited with a significant influence in the bringing of English literature to continental Europe.

*" Our name is Legion, and we are Many " is from Daniel Defoe's " Legion's Memorial ," delivered to the British House of Commons on May 14, 1701, in which Defoe defends the right to petition, claiming to represent 200, 000 petitioners.

There were many stories of real-life castaways in Defoe's time.

Under the umbrella of a parody of travel writing ( such as Defoe's, but more particularly the fantastic and oriental tales that were circulating in London ), Swift's Gulliver travels to Liliput, a figurative London beset by a figurative Paris, and sees all of the factionalism and schism as trifles of small men.

Title page from Daniel Defoe's: The History Of The Union Of Great Britain dated 1709 and printed in Edinburgh by the Heirs of Anderson

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe's A Review, published on 3 December 1709 and demanding " a Law in the present Parliament ... for the Encouragement of Learning, Arts, and Industry, by securing the Property of Books to the Authors or Editors of them ", was followed by How's Some Thoughts on the Present State of Printing and Bookselling, which hoped that Parliament " might think fit to secure Property in Books by a Law ".

Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in " An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon ," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons ( Publishers to the University ), 1911.

Defoe's immediate inspiration for Crusoe is usually thought to be a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers ' expedition after four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast.

His short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony, followed by his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures, was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Row, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

In Defoe's time, there was a footbridge at this point, but carts and waggons had to cross the river by a ford.

Boosted by 19 April 1709 issue of Daniel Defoe's A Review of the Affairs of France, a periodical that supported the Harley ministry, the concept was a key factor in British negotiations, and was reflected in the final treaties.

It is said that he was inspired by Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children.

Though he did not invent " secret writing " or cryptography ( he was likely inspired by an interest in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe ), Poe certainly popularized it during his time.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a general influence, and scenes of Pym and Dirk Peters in a cave echo scenes in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, which many reviewers noted at the time, including London publications such as the Court Gazette and the Torch.

Daniel Defoe's semi-fictictional, but highly realistic, work A Journal of the Plague Year records that one of these was " just by St Magnus Church ".

England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson singled out Defoe's display for praise in an otherwise poor performance by England, saying, " Jermain Defoe did very well – I liked what I saw.

Francis ' nephew Charles Lodwik ( 1658 – 1724 ), Mayor of New York City in 1694, signed at Defoe's marriage as a witness, and Francis may have introduced Defoe to " Roscommon's Academy ", a group founded by Lord Roscommon in 1683.

Robinson Crusoe is a 1997 film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller and stars Pierce Brosnan playing Robinson Crusoe in this loose adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic novel.

The Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) left standing only Defoe's and two other homes in his neighbourhood.

In 1742, he printed the third edition of Daniel Defoe's Tour through Great Britain.

The Cross is referred to in Daniel Defoe's a " Tour through the whole island of Great Britain ", where he reports on the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675, "... a townsman being at Queen's Cross upon a hill on the south side of the town, about two miles off, saw the fire at one end of the town then newly begun, and that before he could get to the town it was burning at the remotest end, opposite where he first saw it.

Plaistow is mentioned in Daniel Defoe's 1724 work, " Tour of the Eastern Counties " ( part of his “ A tour thro ’ the whole island of Great Britain ”), as a town in which there had been much new building as well as repairs to existing houses since the Revolution.

Fielding's novels arise out of a satirical model, and the same year that he wrote Joseph Andrews, he also wrote a work that parodied Daniel Defoe's criminal biographies: The History of Jonathan Wild the Great.

Fiennes's patriotic justification for domestic tourism and her interest in the " production and manufactures of each place " anticipated the genre of ' economic tourism ' which became formalised with Daniel Defoe's professional and survey-like A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 26 ).