Written in the early eighteenth century - a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success - Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief.
