The Fortunate Mistress

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Canaletto and William Hogarth. The daughter of Huguenot refugees, married to a foolish London brewer, is left destitute with five children, gives them away, and rises through a series of protectors to a fortune, a title and a maid who knows everything. Defoe published "Roxana" in 1724 and left the ending deliberately unresolved, ...