Fortunate Mistress - Or A History of the Life of Mademoiselle De Beleau Known as the Lady Roxana

"Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" is a 1724 novel by Daniel Defoe. It is the autobiography of a woman who gives up her virtue for survival initially, then for fame and fortune later. It has been called a post-feminist work, examining the contemporary patriarchal society through the enterprising and independent character of Roxana before a feminist ideology had been fully formed. Daniel Defoe (1660 ...