Defoe

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1. Defoe - Noun

2. Defoe - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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Able to engage with the present and speak to the future, Defoe is the ideal writer. Source: Internet

Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 As many as 545 titles have been ascribed to Defoe, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets, and volumes. Source: Internet

Bradley was a regular Sunderland mascot and he held the hand of his idol Defoe. Source: Internet

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

Defoe made no attempt to explain why the same Parliament of Scotland which was so vehement for its independence from 1703–1705 became so supine in 1706. Source: Internet

"Crusoe" may have been taken from Timothy Cruso, a classmate of Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth (1695), before dying at an early age – just eight years before Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe. Source: Internet

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