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Daniel Defoe
English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 13 September 1660, 3 April 1660, 30 September 1660, 1660
- Died
- 24 April 1731, 1731
- Place of birth
- Ward of Cripplegate, London
- Place of death
- Moorfields
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Daniel
- Father
- James Foe
- Mother
- Alice Marsh
- Spouse
- Mary Tuffley
- Said to be the same as
- Charles Johnson
- Occupation
- journalist, novelist, prose writer, children's writer, publicist, writer, businessperson, opinion journalist, poet, publisher, spy
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Presbyterianism
- bibliography
- Daniel Defoe bibiliography
- birth name
- Daniel Foe
- date of burial or cremation
- 26 April 1731
- described by source
- Larousse Encyclopedia online, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Iedereen Leest, Library of the World's Best Literature, Defoe am Pranger, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, ProDetLit
- has works in the collection
- National Museum of World Cultures, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- name in native language
- Daniel Defoe
- notable work
- Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year
- place of burial
- Bunhill Fields
- start of work period
- 1700
- topic's main category
- Category:Daniel Defoe
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Robinson Crusoe
- Moll Flanders
- A Journal of the Plague Year
- The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- Captain Singleton
- Colonel Jack
- A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain
- Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
- The Political History of the Devil
- Conjugal Lewdness
- Memoirs of a Cavalier
- The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
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