Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Daniel Defoe: A Brief Chronology Defoe’s Times: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
Roxana
Appendix A: Roxana’s Shifting Identity and the Tradition of Whore Biography
- From The Lawyer’s Clarke Trappan’d by the Crafty Whore of Canterbury (1663)
- From The London Jilt (1683)
- From The Whores Rhetorick (1683)
Appendix B:Women’s Work
- A True Copie of the Petition of the Gentlewomen, and Tradesmens-Wives (1641)
- Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck (1739)
Appendix C: Court Culture
- Poor-Whores Petition (1668)
- The Gracious ANSWER … To the Poor-Whores Petition (1668)
- John Dunton, The Night-Walker (1696)
Appendix D: City Culture
- The Character of a Town-Miss (1680)
- Auction of Whores (1691)
Appendix E: The Great Debate on the Poor
- From Matthew Hale, A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor (1683)
- From Thomas Firman, Some Proposals for the imployment of the Poor (1681)
- From Daniel Defoe, The Poor Man’s Plea (1698)
- From Daniel Defoe, Every-Body’s Business is No-Body’s Business (1725)
- From Bernard Mandeville, Modest Defense of the Publick Stews (1724)
- From Daniel Defoe, Some Considerations Upon Street-Walkers (1726)
Appendix F:Women and Marriage
- From Mary Astell, Some Considerations on Marriage (1700/1706)
- From Daniel Defoe, Conjugal Lewdness (1727)
Appendix G: Alternate Endings of Roxana
- Daniel Defoe, The fortunate mistress (1740)
- Daniel Defoe, The history of Mademoiselle de Beleau (1775)
Appendix H: Defoe, Roxana, and Posterity
- From Charles Gildon, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Daniel Defoe (1719)
- From The History of Mademoiselle de Beleau; or,The New Roxana (1775)
- John Howlett, The Insufficiency of the Causes to which the Increase of the Poor’s Rates Have Been Commonly Ascribed (1788)
- George Chalmers, The Life of Daniel Defoe (1790)
- Thomas Ruggles, The History of the Poor (1797)
- The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1833)
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