Restless Daniel
John Mullan: Defoe, 20 July 2006
The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography
by John Richetti.
Blackwell, 406 pp., £50, December 2005,0 631 19529 7 Show More
by John Richetti.
Blackwell, 406 pp., £50, December 2005,
A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe
by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens.
Pickering & Chatto, 277 pp., £60, January 2006,1 85196 810 5 Show More
by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens.
Pickering & Chatto, 277 pp., £60, January 2006,
“... It attached even to his private writings, notably his surviving letters to Robert Harley, soon to be secretary of state and eventually unofficial prime minister. Harley rescued Defoe from Newgate, after he was convicted of seditious libel. He wanted to use him, and gave him a heady sense of influence over ... ”