Defoe
DANIEL (de-fō), an English writer; born in London in 1661. In 1685 he joined the insurrection of the Duke of Monmouth, and had the good fortune to escape; after which he made several unsuccessful attempts at business, and at last turned his attention to literature. In 1701 appeared his satire in verse, "The Trueborn Englishman," in favor of William III. As a zealous was frequently in trouble. For publishing "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters" (1702), he was pilloried and imprisoned in Newgate. , in 1704, he began the "Review," a literary and political periodical which lasted for nine years. In 1705 he wrote a short account of the "Appari- ," a fictitious narrative. In 1706 he published his longest poem, entitled "Jure Divino," a satire on the doctrine of divine right. In 1719 appeared the most popular of all his per- DANIEL DEFOE vgate.
Ban formances, "The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," the fawhich was immediate and universal. The success of Defee in this performance induced him to write a number of other lives and adventures in character tures in character, as "Moll Flanders," "Roxana," "Duncan," "Campbell," " can," "Campbell," "The Memoirs of a Cavalier," "Journal of the Plague," etc. of George I. he was employed by the government in some unwith the obnox- DEFORMITIES ious Jacobite press. He died in London, April 26, 1731. ventor, born at Council Bluffs, Ia., 1873.