The life and actions of Moll Flanders. Containing her birth and education in Newgate; her Ambition to be a Gentlewoman; her being taken into a Gentleman's Family; her being debauch'd by her Master's Eldest Son, and married to the Younger; her Marriage to her own Brother; her going over with him to, and settling in, Virginia; her Return to England; her Marriage to an Highwayman, who pass'd for a Person of Quality; her being reduc'd, and turning Thief; her taking some Plate from an House on Fire; her turning Informer; her robbing in Man's Clothes; A singular Adventure that happen'd to her at Bartholomew-Fair; her being apprehended, committed to Newgate, try'd, and cast for her Life; her obtaining Transportation; her meeting with her Quality-Husband in the same Condition; her being transported with him; her second Settlement, and happy Success in Virginia, and Settlement in Ireland; her Estate, Penitence, Age, Death, Burial, Elegy, and Epitaph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Standardized Title:

Moll Flanders. Abridgments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chapbooks--Specimens--Early works to 1800.

Chapbooks.

Chapbooks, English--Early works to 1800.

Chapbooks, English.

Women adventurers--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Women adventurers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],188p.,plates )

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold by T. Read, behind the Sun Tavern in Fleetstreet, [1723]

Notes:

An abridgment of the work by Daniel Defoe.

Price from imprint: Price One Shilling.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Moore, 446

English Short Title Catalog, T70316.

OCLC:

642666370