Moll

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<p>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?</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>

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Sian Rees's acclaimed historical works include the best-selling<i>The Floating Brothel</i>;<i>The Shadows of Eliza Lynch</i>;<i>The Ship Thieves</i>and most recently<i>Sweet Water and Bitter: the Ships that Stopped the Slave Trade</i>. She lives in Brighton.

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