Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business: Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances Exemplified is a 1725 pamphlet by
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (; born Daniel Foe; 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, merchant and spy. He is most famous for his novel ''Robinson Crusoe'', published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translati ...
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It deals with the "exorbitant
Wage
A wage is payment made by an employer to an employee for work (human activity), work done in a specific period of time. Some examples of wage payments include wiktionary:compensatory, compensatory payments such as ''minimum wage'', ''prevailin ...
s of our Women, Servants, Footmen".
Similarly to ''
The Protestant Monastery
''The Protestant Monastery: or, a Complaint against the Brutality of the Present Age'' is a 1726 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe. It focuses on contemporary disrespect towards elders. Similarly to '' Every-body's Business, Is No-body's Business'' (1725), ...
'' (1726), ''
Parochial Tyranny'' (1727), ''
Augusta Triumphans'' (1728) and ''
Second Thoughts are Best'' (1729), it was published under the pseudonym of
Andrew Moreton
Andrew Moreton is a pseudonym used by Daniel Defoe in several pamphlets published between 1725 and 1729, proposing some new reflections on themes already discussed in Defoe's 1697 '' An essay upon projects''. Moreton is presented as a crotchety mid ...
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[ Defoe did not sign his name to the majority of his works.][ This choice was “sometimes” made “to conceal his authorship or to stimulate sales, but more characteristically to establish a point of view”.][
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See also
* '' The Great Law of Subordination Consider'd'' (1727) by Daniel Defoe
References
Bibliography
Backscheider, P B, ''Daniel Defoe.His Life'', The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1989.
“Social Projects”, Daniel Defoe. The Collection of the Lily Library, Indiana University Bloomington, 2008, retrieved 25 October 2015,
George, M D, ''London Life in the Eighteenth Century'', Penguin Books, Great Britain, 1979.
Maldonado, T, “Defoe and the ‘Projecting Age’”,''MIT Press'', vol. 18, no. 1, 2002, pp. 78-85, retrieved 20 October 2015, JSTOR,
Moore, J R, "Defoe's Persona as Author: The Quaker's Sermon", ''SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900'', vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 507–516, retrieved 20 November 2015, JSTOR,
Novak, M E, “Last Productive Years”,''Daniel Defoe Master of Fictions. His Life and Ideas'', Oxford University Press, United States of America, 2001.
External links
Daniel Defoe. The Collection of the Lily Library
1725 non-fiction books
Pamphlets
Works by Daniel Defoe
Works published under a pseudonym
Wages and salaries
Works about servants
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