The English novel was born with ‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years ago this year

A convincing case can be made for Daniel Defoe’s story about a castaway on a tropical island to be the first novel in English

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Writer, poet, tutor and mentor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature), book editor, journalist and musician.

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Geoff Ward

Writer, poet, tutor and mentor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature), book editor, journalist and musician.