Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660 to a family of Presbyterian Dissenters and educated at a dissenting academy in Newington Green He became a merchant dealing in different commodities including hosiery In 1684 he married Mary Tuffley 1665-1732 six of their eight children lived into adulthoodDuring his lifetime Daniel Defoe produced at a conservative estimate 318 publications in many formats and on an extraordinary range of topics Perhaps bes...