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Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe

Person  Male  Born 1659  Died 24/4/1731

Categories: Literature, Seriously Famous

Novelist. Born in the parish of Cripplegate, as Daniel Foe, adding the "de" latter, for effect. Published "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, considered by some to be the first novel in English. His grave with monument is in Bunhill Fields.

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Daniel Defoe

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Bunhill burial ground - 5

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Daniel Defoe

LCC Daniel Defoe (1661 - 1731) lived in a house on this site.

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