The fortunes & misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders &c. who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continued variety for threescore years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, lived honest & died a penitent : written from her own memorandums - Defoe, Daniel 1661?-1731 (Rinehart editions, 1949)