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  2. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders: Created by Dominic Minghella. With James Bowers, Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig, Trevyn McDowell. Story of a woman who merely wished to be a loving wife, but always had to live the life of crime.

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    • James Bowers, Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig
  3. Daniel Defoe's novel The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, published in 1722, is a useful historical text for examining the everyday lives of female children as well as the possibilities of girlhood in 18th-century British society.

  4. 9 December 1996. ( 1996-12-09) The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders is a 1996 British drama television film directed by David Attwood, with a screenplay by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston. [1] It is an adaptation of the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe .

  5. Moll Flanders, picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1722. The novel recounts the adventures of a lusty and strong-willed woman who is compelled, from earliest childhood, to make her own way in 17th-century England. The plot is summed up in the novel’s full title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who Was ...

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  6. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders at Wikisource. Moll Flanders [a] is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe ...

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  7. The full title of Moll Flanders gives an apt summary of the plot: "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew ...

  8. A woodcut on the title page depicts Flanders as a rich gentlewoman, while in the background she is shown in her previous life, being whipped and facing the hangman’s noose.This nineteen-page edition is a condensed version of Defoe's original novel, which is titled The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722) and written as ...

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