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Daniel Defoe. A True Journalist By Mike Sheridan Sept. 28,2007. Daniel Foe. Aristocratical name change at 35 Protestant family out of favor limited his education Pamphleteer Spy Novelist. Name changes:. We now know him as Daniel DeFoe (better than vonFoe) See link for details.
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Daniel Defoe A True Journalist By Mike Sheridan Sept. 28,2007
Daniel Foe • Aristocratical name change at 35 • Protestant family out of favor limited his education • Pamphleteer • Spy • Novelist
Name changes: • We now know him as Daniel DeFoe • (better than vonFoe) • See link for details
Education: • Oxford or Cambridge would not admit a dissenter who criticized the Church of England
Pamphlets: • DeFoe’s pamphlet, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, landed him in prison when the Church recognized irony.
Life as a spy: • DeFoe agreed to be a spy for the Crown to be, in turn, released from prison.
His novels: • The Journal of the Plague Year and • Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe • Story is true (somewhat) • Andrew Selkirk was originally shipwrecked • Crusoe was the name of a school chum • Journalistic style abounds
Choose, and click on the correct answer • A. DeFoe was an American spy • B. DeFoe was not his birth name • C. DeFoe was shipwrecked
Right • You must have been paying attention • Click to get your reward
Wrong Click to read more about DeFoe
Sorry Charlie • Click to learn more about DeFoe
The end of this thing • Next item please!
References • www.timelineindex.com/content/view/1754 - 12k • blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/pirbibl.html - 47k • www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679640028 - 30k -