Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… An Appeal to Honour and Justice (London: J. Baker, 1715). We find evidence of this inegalitarian relationship in Defoe’s correspondence with Robert Harley, which comprise the majority of Defoe’s surviving letters from Anne’s reign. The editor of this correspondence observes that ‘of the 278 letters and documents collected in this edition, 245 were written by Defoe and … of a patron-client relationship. 7 6 . Nicholas Seager, ‘Introduction to Daniel Defoe’, The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (Cambridge: Cambridge Uniersity Press, 2022), xlix (quoted); l-li. 7 . Frances Harris, The …
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