Born on this day – Daniel Defoe:

Daniel Defoe

Writer

September 13, 1660 – April 24, 1731

Books:

A General History of the Pyrates (1724); A Journal of the Plague Year (1722); A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1761); Classic Sea Stories (1994); Colonel Jack (1722); Great Ghost Stories (1984); Great Short Stories of the World (1986); Moll Flanders (1722); Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (2002); Robinson Crusoe (1719); Roxana (1724); Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (1720); Tales by Moonlight II (1989); Tales of Piracy, Crime and Ghosts (1945); The 14th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1978); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (1952); The Evil Image (1983); The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719); The Freak Show (1970); The Great Book of Thrillers (1935); The King of Pirates (1719); The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (1990); The Mystery Book (1934); The Shipwreck Collection (2019); Thrillers (1994).

Movies and television:

As Aventuras de Robinson Crusoé (1978); BBC Play of the Month (1974); Crusoe (1988 / 2008–2009); Dobrodruzství Robinsona Crusoe, námorníka z Yorku (1982); Festival of Family Classics (1973); Ficciones (1972); Game of Thrones Winter is Coming: Lu bin xùn piaoliú jì (2020); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); His Man Friday (2009); Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé (1922); L'Île mystérieuse de l'Oncle Ernest (2000); Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966); Man Friday (1975); Mickey's Man Friday (1935); Miss Robin Crusoe (1953); Moll Flanders (1975); Moll Flanders (1996); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016); Peabody's Improbable History (1960); Play for Today (1972); Ramón de Rubinat (2025); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2021–2022); Robinson Crusoe (1902 / 1913 / 1916 / 1917 / 1927 / 1954 / 1970 / 1972 / 1973 / 1974 / 1997 / 2003); Robinson Crusoe Jr (1976); Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964); Robinson Crusoe on Sin Island (2005); Robinson Crusoe: The Great Blitzkrieg (2008); Robinson et compagnie (1991); Robinson y Viernes en la isla encantada (1973); Rovinsonas Krousos (2004); Sex in Sweden (1977); Shoestring Theatre (1960); Softly from Paris (1991); The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1922 / 1964); The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965); The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996); The Periwig-Maker (1999); The Shipwrecked Man (1909); The Sunday Programme (2003); The Wild Life (2016); The Year of the Plague (1979).

On this day in television history – Moll Flanders (TV mini-series & novel):

 

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

4-part mini-series directed by David Attwood,

written by Andrew Davies, Dominic Minghella,

based on the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, released in the United States on October 13, 1996.

Music by Jim Parker, Mark Springer.

Cast:

Alex Kingston, Daniel Craig, James Bowers, Trevyn McDowell, Patti Love, Colin Buchanan, Nicola Walker, Roger Morlidge, Nicola Kingston, Geoffrey Beevers, Sam Halpenny, Tom Ward, Anthony O'Donnell, Lucy Evans, Jenna Hodges, Diana Rigg, Anthony Bessick, Matthew O'Neill, Lucy Fitzmaurice, James Fleet, Struan Rodger, Dan D. Fough, Claire Keepie, John Savident, Bill Thomas, Chrissie Cotterill, Jonathan Weir, Brian Rawlinson, Peter Jonfield, Anna Welsh, Neville Phillips, Will Tacey, Alison Lomas, Maureen O'Brien, Guy Scantlebury, Irving Czechowicz, Ronald Fraser, Catherine Keis, Anthony Milner, Ian Driver, Ruth Mitchell, Caroline Harker, Anya Phillips, Dallas Campbell, Milton Johns, Dawn McDaniel, David Burston, David Norman, Ken McDonald, Mary Healey, Elizabeth Skelton, Jeff Nuttall, Philip Fox, Caroline Trowbridge, Victoria Scarborough, Jeffrey Robert, James Larkin, Christopher Fulford, Michael Johnson, Andrew Mayor, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Evie Garratt, James Helm, Colin Alltree, Sarah Dorsett, Alistair Donkin, Alex Brown, Tim Jefferis, David Mitchell, Maia Lucas.

 

Recommended reading:

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe.

First published 1772.
Published by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN 13: 9780375760105
ISBN 10: 0375760105
ASIN:0375760105
 
Description:

Written in 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 to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe’s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward.