History Literature / MollFlanders

* LongTitle: We don't really want to type it all out again...

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Moll, after a life time of hardships, not only becomes genuinely repentant of her actions, but is HappilyMarried, reconciled with her son, and a wealthy gentlewoman by legitimate means.]]

Well, we don't really need to, given that the entire story is revealed by the full title: ''The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety'' (*takes a breath*) ''For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums''. (*breathes*) Whew.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Though to be fair, they didn't know they were siblings at the time.

* DirectLineToTheAuthor: "Written from her own Memorandums".

Outside that, all you really need to know is that it's a novel published in 1722 written by Daniel Defoe, author of ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', and that it received several adaptations, including a 1965 film starring Creator/KimNovak as Moll, a 1996 film starring Creator/RobinWright as Moll, and a TV miniseries also from 1996, starring Creator/AlexKingston as Moll.

* GoldDigger: The Book.
** In a hilarious fashion, she marries a supposedly rich Catholic man, who turns out to be a GoldDigger ''himself''. Naturally, they split up.

* OutlawCouple: [[spoiler:Ironically, when they reunite at the end of the novel [[LoveRedeems she and her husband both become repentant of their crimes.]] ]]

Outside that, all you really need to know is that it's a novel published in 1722 written by Daniel Defoe, author of ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', and that it received several adaptations, including a 1965 film starring Creator/KimNovak as Moll, a 1996 film starring Creator/RobinWright, and a TV miniseries also from 1996, starring Creator/AlexKingston as Moll.

Outside that, all you really need to know is that it's a novel, was published in 1722, and was written by Daniel Defoe, author of ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe''.

* DawsonCasting: In the 1996 miniseries, 33-year-old AlexKingston played Moll from the age of 18 onwards. (She hardly looks any older when she gets transported: at that point, Moll is 61 in the novel, and so far as the miniseries' chronology makes sense, she ought to be about 50.)

* TheAtoner: As the title says, Moll[[spoiler:, and her husband,]] both become this in the end.

* DrivenToSuicide: Moll's third husband after he learns [[spoiler: he's her long lost brother]]. He survives, though.

* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Moll's mother is...[[BrotherSisterIncest her mother in law.]] ]]
* LongTitle

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Moll finally discovers her long-lost mother. Unfortunately, Moll's mother is also...her mother-in-law. Oops.]]

* DawsonCasting: In the 1996 miniseries, 33-year-old Alex Kingston played Moll from the age of 18 onwards. (She hardly looks any older when she gets transported: at that point, Moll is 61 in the novel, and so far as the miniseries' chronology makes sense, she ought to be about 50.)

* DirectLineToTheAuthor: "Written from her own Memorandums".

* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Moll's mother is...[[BrotherSisterIncest her mother in law.]]

* OutlawCouple: [[spoiler:Ironically, when they reunite at the end of the novel [[LoveRedeems she and her husband both become repentant of their crimes.]]

* SurpriseIncest
* UnreliableNarrator

* BrotherSisterIncest

* OutlawCouple

* DawsonsCasting: in the 1996 miniseries, 33-year-old Alex Kingston played Moll from the age of 18 onwards. (She hardly looks any older when she gets transported: at that point, Moll is 61 in the novel, and so far as the miniseries' chronology makes sense, she ought to be about 50.)

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: "Written from her own Memorandums".

Outside that, all you really need to know is that it's a novel, was published in 1722, and was written by Daniel Defoe, author of ''RobinsonCrusoe''.

* [[{{BrotherSisterIncest/Literature}} Brother Sister Incest]]
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: And what a rather long tin it is.
* ForegoneConclusion

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