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ROBINSON CRUSOE D D Was Born London The Third Child James Foe Tallow Chandler And

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   ROBINSON CRUSOE D D   Was Born In London The Third Child Of James Foe A Tallow Chandler And His Wife Alice He Attended Charles Mortons Dissenting Academy In Newington Green Before Establishing Himself As A Hosier And General Merchant In Cornhill And Married Mary Tuffley In  A Year Later He Joined The Duke Of Monmouths Disastrous Rebellion Against James II And Was Lucky To Escape The Bloody Assizes Following Monmouths Defeat At Sedgemoor Persistent Overinvestment Precipitated His Bankruptcy In After Which He Turned To Writing Defoes First Great Success Came With His Satirical Poem The True Born Englishman  The Shortest Way With The Dissenters  An Audacious Parody Of High Anglican Extremism Brought Him A Charge Of Seditious Libel And He Was Briefly Imprisoned Defoe Was Employed By Successive Ministries As A Polemicist Until About  And Con

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