Daniel Defoe 
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress 

Roxana The Fortunate Mistress Daniel Defoe – Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress was Daniel Defoe’s last and darkest novel; the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own ‘wicked’ life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past.

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English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist Daniel Defoe is best known for his novels ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘Moll Flanders.’

Who Was Daniel Defoe?

Daniel Defoe became a merchant and participated in several failing businesses, facing bankruptcy and aggressive creditors. He was also a prolific political pamphleteer which landed him in prison for slander. Late in life he turned his pen to fiction and wrote Robinson Crusoe, one of the most widely read and influential novels of all time.