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2 unusual facts about Moll Flanders


Accidental incest

Moll Flanders unknowingly marries her half-brother, and has children by him.

Moll Flanders

His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group.


Christine McKenna

Upon graduating, she appeared in productions for the National Theatre and in the West End of London, including Stephen Sondheim´s A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Great Expectations, and played "Polly" in The Boy Friend with Glynis Johns, "Sally Bowles" in Cabaret, and "Moll" in Moll Flanders.

Lord Leycester Hospital

The building has been used in many historical-set television productions including Pride and Prejudice, Tom Jones, Moll Flanders and the 2007 Doctor Who episode The Shakespeare Code.

The George Inn, Norton St Philip

The building has been used as a setting for films such as The Remains of the Day, Tom Jones, and The Canterbury Tales, as well as in the television adaptations of Persuasion by Jane Austen and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.


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