GenevaBookClub: Story of fall and eventual redemption, both material and spiritual, of a lone woman in 17th-century England. Purported to be a true story. Moll Flanders was born to a convict, given a reprieve by “pleading her belly”. Moll has a life of hardship where she has no option by various forms of criminality. Sought to escape poverty by marriage. Set between London and Virginia. An unintentionally proto-feminist novel.