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Brewer's: Moll Flanders

A woman of extra-ordinary beauty, born in the Old Bailey. She was twelve years a courtesan, five times a wife, twelve years a thief, eight years a transport in Virginia; but ultimately…

Brewer's: Flanders

(Moll). The chief character of De Foe's novel of the same name. She runs through the whole career of female profligacy, then turns religious. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Moll Cutpurse

Mary Frith, a woman of masculine vigour, who not unfrequently assumed man's attire. She was a notorious thief and cutpurse, who once attacked General Fairfax on Hounslow Heath, for which…

Brewer's: Moll Thomson's Mark

As “Take away this bottle, it has Moll Thomson's mark on it.” Moll Thomson is M. T. (empty). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MollyMoll Flanders A B C D…

Lights! Camera! Learning! - British Literature

The best of British literature Paltrow's winsome matchmaker Emma Recent film offerings suggest the enduring appeal of Jane Austen's storytelling. In the past few years, we've been wowed by…

Brewer's: Moll

(Kentish). Mary Carlson, commonly known as the German Princess. She was sentenced to transportation, but, being found at large, was hanged at Tyburn in 1672. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Daniel Defoe

Name at birth: Daniel FoeDaniel Defoe is generally considered to be England's first true novelist. His book Robinson Crusoe (1719), the tale of a sailor shipwrecked alone on a deserted island, is a…

Flanders

(Encyclopedia) FlandersFlandersflănˈdərz, former county in the Low Countries, extending along the North Sea and W of the Scheldt (Escaut) River. It is divided among East Flanders and West Flanders…

Robin Wright Penn Biography

Robin Wright Penn(Robin Wright)actressBorn: 4/8/1966Birthplace: Dallas, Texas Before garnering attention for her performance as the title character in the movie The Princess Bride (1987),…