The condition of the female class in England

Moll Flanders

Remarkable novel.

If indeed Defoe did write it, what possessed him to do so?

I suppose it counts as a picaresque novel and a novel of manners, but it's also a feminist tract before its time.

I think.

The narrative is continuous except for a division into two parts, which makes it inconvenient to put the book down to go do something else once you have started reading.

Interesting reading.