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