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Podcast: The Reader and the Writer
Episode: Moll Flanders | Part 3
Description: Welcome back to Moll Flanders! In this episode, Shari and Rhea continue to discuss Moll’s downward spiral. Why does Moll insist on this Gentlewoman status to the extreme detriment of herself and all her children she keeps birthing and leaving behind?? They talk more about Moll’s seeming lack of maternal compassion or instinct, and how much of it is due to the male author behind it. They discuss the autobiographical format and begin to question Defoe’s motives for writing this book anonymously and trying to pass it off as a true autobiography of a woman. And much...