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Works of Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders: Part 1, Chapters 4 and 5

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Defoe, Daniel

Defoe, Daniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Moll Flanders: Part 1, Chapters 4 and 5

Chapter 4: A New Husband Won And Lost.

Moll now continues her own story. She discovers that it is not easy to
find a good husband when one is poor.

Comment:

This seems to contradict her previous statement concerning the
availability of husbands, but it confirms her earlier comment that men are
more interested in a woman's fortune than in her appearance or personality.

She therefore decides to move to an area where her poverty is not known.
The young woman, whom Moll hereafter refers to as the captain's lady, ...

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