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Roxana
The Fortunate Mistress
by Daniel Defoe
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"Roxana", Defoe's last and darkest novel, is 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.
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Fiction, History, Women, Mistresses, English Picaresque literature, English Historical fiction, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, England, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, historical, general, Europe, fiction, Social conditions, Psychology, Long Now Manual for CivilizationPlaces
Europe, Great Britain, Women
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"I WAS BORN, as my Friends told me, at the City of POICTIERS, in the Province, or County of POICTOU, in France, from whence I was brought to England by my Parents, who fled for their Religion about the Year 1683, when the Protestants were Banish'd from France by the Cruelty of their Persecutors."
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