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Flanders, Moll

Flanders, Moll

amoral adventuress of many liasons. [Br. Lit.: Defoe Moll Flanders in Benét, 678]
See: Adventurousness

Flanders, Moll

adventuress bears a dozen children to various mates. [Br. Lit.: Moll Flanders in Magill I, 614]
See: Prolificness
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English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of Crusoe, Robinson (1719) and Flanders, Moll (1722).
Defoe, Daniel
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