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D---n Molley H——ns for her Pride.
GENERAL EDITOR
David Stuart Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles
EDITORS
Charles L. Batten, University of California, Los Angeles
George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Wright, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
ADVISORY EDITORS
Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Earl Miner, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
James Sutherland, University College, London
Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Frances M. Reed, University of California, Los Angeles
For modern readers, one of the most intriguing scenes in DanielDefoe's Moll Flanders (1722) occurs during the courtship of Mollby the man who is to become her third husband. Aware that the eligiblemen of her day have little interest in prospective wives with small ornonexistent fortunes, Moll slyly devises a plan to keep her relativepoverty a secret from the charming and (as she has every reason tobelieve) wealthy plantation owner who has fallen in love with her. Todivert attention from her own financial condition, she repeatedlysuggests that he has been courting her only for her money. Again andagain he protests his love. Over and over she pretends to doubt hissincerity.
After a series of exhausting confrontations, Moll's lover begins whatis to us a novel kind of dialogu