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Man Friday's Geordie roots are revealed.(News)

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From: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Date: 20050427
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Byline: By Ray Marshall

Daniel Defoe is remembered as the father of the English novel but it is a little known fact, according to a new book, that his most famous novel Robinson Crusoe was written on Tyneside.

I Never Knew That About England by Christopher Winn claims Robinson Crusoe was written while ...

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