Morris Frankel

Author: Daniel Defoe
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: Moll Flanders was born in Newgate Prison. She was adopted as a child and from a young age, she aspired to be self-reliant, achieving the ideal of a "lady" through honest labor. However, at the age of 15, she was seduced by the eldest son of her adoptive family and later married the younger son. After that, she became a prostitute, married five times in succession, engaged in affairs with various people, and then became a thief, becoming a notorious pickpocket. She was eventually arrested and sent to Newgate Prison like her mother, and later exiled to Virginia. Later, she became an honest woman, living a prosperous and contented life, and before her death, she sincerely repented of her former life of crime.