The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe
Not Just the Tudors
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The True Born Englishman
In 17 15, he wrote when he was in trouble with the government. He published an appeal to honour and justice though it were of his worst enemies. But there is a discovery that he was actually in the debtor's prison. How he became known to the ministers of queen anne after she died. She certainly pardoned him when he was imprisoned for the seditious libel because of a pamphlet called the shortest way with the dissenters. Robert harley probably best known now because of the character in the favourite, very different character from the person who was in the film,. i have to say.
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