Nov 18, 2022
4 min read
5 Husbands And Several Lovers By The Time She Reached Age 48
Moll Flanders: whore to thief
During the first third of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, we are taken through Moll’s life from a destitute child borne by a woman at Newgate Prison to her insistence on becoming a whore instead of a maid.
It makes sense to me: Moll would rather sleep with men she is attracted to anyway…
