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.
• text file

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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