Daniel Defoe

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English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)

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By 1708 other parishes in Sussex were charged rates to alleviate poverty in Brighton, and Daniel Defoe wrote that the expected £8,000 cost of providing sea defences was "more than the whole town was worth". Source: Internet

In 1721, when the Black Death again threatened the European Continent, Daniel Defoe wrote " A Journal of the Plague Year " to alert an indifferent populace to the horror that was almost upon them. Source: Internet

He was buried at sea.sfn When Daniel Defoe published The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), few readers could have missed the resemblance to Selkirk. Source: Internet

Robinson Crusoe is a fictional writer who was originally credited by the real writer ( Daniel Defoe ) as being the author of the confessional letters in the work of the same name. Source: Internet

The Letters of Daniel Defoe, GH Healey editor. Source: Internet

His mother Annie had died by the time that he was about ten. citation John J. Richetti (2005) The Life of Daniel Defoe. Source: Internet

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