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Moll Sian Rees

Moll By Sian Rees

Moll by Sian Rees


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and from the metropolis of London to the hamlet of Annapolis in the early eighteenth century.

Sian Rees introduces us to real-life versions of Moll's mother, her amoral 'governess', her many husbands and lovers - and Moll herself.

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Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Sian Rees

Daniel Defoe's fictional heroine Moll Flanders is famous for her criminal and sexual adventures, racily portrayed on big and small screens. But who was she? And what world did she really inhabit?

To answer these questions Moll takes its 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; from the English Restoration to Maryland's slave-worked tobacco farms; and from the metropolis of London to the hamlet of Annapolis in the early eighteenth century.

Sian Rees introduces us to real-life versions of Moll's mother, her amoral 'governess', her many husbands and lovers - and Moll herself. These include Moll Cutpurse: thief, receiver, procuress and gangmaster; Mary Moders, known as the 'Kentish Moll' or the 'German Princess', who played a distressed noblewoman to hook rich men; and Moll King, a London thief reprieved from death to be transported as a convict to the Virginian plantations. Combining meticulously researched tales of London's underworld with the little-known story of penal transportation to America, Moll is as fast-moving and rich in incident as Defoe's great novel.

Moll Reviews

Brisk, lucid and packed with colour...If you haven't read the original, this book will surely prove the necessary spur; to Rees's credit, it's also highly enjoyable in its own right * The Lady *
Sian Rees brings alive this fictional woman and makes her live and breathe in the teeming London of her birth...Rees has written history at its most accessible: learned, informative and highly entertaining. * Sunday Express *
Rees has a magpie's eye for the details that make history sparkle...The result is a wonderfully entertaining, enlightening book, which in its own way is just as much fun as the original -- Jemima Lewis * Mail on Sunday *
Rees' skill as a masterful researcher and a story teller truly shines...Moll Flanders is merely the peg on which she hangs a thoroughly engrossing study of 17th-century life. * BBC History Magazine *
Rees is adept at describing such real-life individuals whose exploits may have contributed something to the adventures of Defoe's fictional character...an engaging enough companion. * The Sunday Times *

About Sian Rees

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.

Additional information

GOR009116757
9780701185077
0701185074
Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Sian Rees
Used - Like New
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
20110707
240
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