Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders

Description

Daniel Defoe''s fictional heroine Moll Flanders is famous for her criminal

and sexual adventures, racily portrayed n big and small screen romps as

bawdy wench, fallen woman and proto-feminist trailblazer. But who was she?

And what world did she really inhabit? To answer these questions Sian Rees

takes her readers on a journey of literary and historical detection, across

continents, cultures and centuries. Following Moll''s tumultuous life, the

story moves from Jacobean England to Jamestown, Virginia; from the English

Civil War to the struggles of the Powhatan Indians; and from the metropolis

of London to the hamlet of Annapolis in the early eighteenth century.

Introducing us to a rogues'' gallery of real-life versions of Moll, it is as

fast-moving and rich in incident as Defoe''s great novel.