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Lecture 4 Daniel Defoe (1798-1832) Early life His birth name was Foe, NOT Defoe. In 1664, at 4, a Dutch fleet sailed up the River Thames and attacked London. In 1665, 70,000 were killed by the plague. the Great Fire of London (1666) At 12, Defoes mother had died. he was educated in a Dissenting Academy. Youth Not a dissenting minister, but a general merchant In 1684 Defoe married a woman with a dowry of ￡3,700. eight children, In 1692, Defoe was arrested for payments of ￡700. By 1695 he was back in England, using the name Defoe, and serving as a commissioner of the glass duty, respo