Introduction

We are grown old; I am come back to England, being almost seventy years of age, husband sixty-eight, having performed much more than the limited terms of my transportation […], and he is come over to England also, where we resolve to spend the remainder of our years in sincere penitence for the wicked lives we have lived (Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1722). Criminelle de haut vol exilée en Virginie, le personnage de Moll Flanders incarne les figures mythiques des criminels façonnés à la fois ...