Title: The fortunate mistress, or, Roxana
Description: "Roxana", Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own "wicked" life as the mistress of rich and powerful men.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Mistresses, Women, English Picaresque literature, English Historical fiction, Large type books, Women -- Great Britain -- Fiction, Women -- Europe -- Fiction, Mistresses -- Fiction, Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction, Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, England, fiction, Europe, civilization, history, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, Europe, fiction, Social conditions, Psychology, Long Now Manual for Civilization
Places: Europe, Great Britain, Women
Time periods: Charles II, 1660-1685, 17th century