''Parochial Tyranny: Or, the House-Keeper's Complaint Against the Insupportable Exactions, and Partial Assessments of Select Vestries, &C'' is a 1727 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe.
It deals with the corruption of parishes.
[ Similarly to '']Every-body's Business, Is No-body's Business
Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business: Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances Exemplified is a 1725 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe. It deals with the "exorbitant Wages of our Women, Servants, Footmen". Similarly to ''The Protestant Monastery
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'' (1725), ''The Protestant Monastery
''The Protestant Monastery: or, a Complaint against the Brutality of the Present Age'' is a 1726 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (; born Daniel Foe; – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He ...
'' (1726), '' Augusta Triumphans'' (1728) and '' Second Thoughts are Best'' (1729), it was published under the pseudonym of Andrew Moreton.[ 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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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
Pamphlets
Works by Daniel Defoe
1727 books
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