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

Defoe, Daniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Moll Flanders: Part 2, Chapters 8 - 11

Part II. The Disreputable Deeds Of Moll Flanders

Chapter 8: Poverty Leads To Crime:

For two years Moll lives upon her small capital, fearing that destitution
is just around the corner. She reminds her readers that temptation is greatest
at the moments of worst distress. At last, as she wanders the London streets
disconsolately, she sees a bundle lying untended in an open shop.

Comment:

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shops and taverns usually
had folding doors in front and were more or less wide open ...

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