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Daniel Defoe Biography
Daniel Defoe Biography
Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731) was an English author and political pamphleteer born in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, London, in the latter part of 1659 or early in 1660, of a nonconformist family.
Other spellings of his name include D. Foe, de Foe, or DeFoe.
Defoe’s grandfather, Daniel Foe, lived at Etton, Northamptonshire, apparently in comfortable circumstances, for he is said to have kept a pack of hounds.
As to the variation of name, Defoe or Foe, its owner signed either indifferently till late in life, and where his initials occur they are sometimes D. F. and sometimes D. D. F. Three autograph letters of his are extant, all addressed in 1705 to the same person, and signed respectively D.
Foe, de Foe and Daniel Defoe. His father, James Foe, was a butcher and a citizen of London.
Education and attempt at business
Daniel was well educated at a famous dissenting academy, Mr. Charles Morton’s of Stoke Newington, where ma