The life and strange surprizing adventures of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a highland-officer, now in prison at Avignon. : Being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland; exhibiting a very agreeable and instructive lesson of human life, both in a publick and private capacity, in several pleasant instances of his amours, gallantry, oeconomy, &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramkins, Alexander, 1672-1719?

Contributor:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century.

English fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,182 pages ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-noster-Row, 1720.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Written in the first person. "Whether there was a real-life Ramkins remains an open question."--Furbank and Owens. The entry in the DNB is apparently entirely based on The memoirs.

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.

A reissue of the 1718 edition omitting the preface, and published 3 December 1719 (Moore).

Price on title page: (Price 1s.)

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Moore, 408

English Short Title Catalog, T69372.

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Restricted for use by site license.