Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe · 1722

The candid confessions of a woman born in Newgate who becomes wife, thief, and penitent across a long, hard life.

Books mentioned in Moll Flanders (1)

• Book of Common Prayer: “Landlord, have you a Common Prayer Book?”

Books that mention Moll Flanders (3)

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: “De Foe in his Cruso, his Moll Flanders, Religious Courtship, Family Instructor, and other pieces, has imitated it with success; and Richardson[26] has done the same in his Pamela, etc.”
• Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Defoe essay: named directly”
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante: “"And so I pushed on, in my speculations, from the first and second Biblical creations to Defoe-Flanders, Flaubert-Bovary, Tolstoy-Karenina..." — Elena's own narrative reflection on literary heroines.”