The Enlightenment In England – Modern Humanities Practice Test

The narrative centers on a woman who makes her living through deception and crime in urban London, told in a first-person voice that tracks her life of schemes and cons. Moll Flanders follows this conwoman from childhood through adulthood as she navigates the crowded streets of London and its surroundings, turning to disguises, theft, and other tricks to survive and prosper. This focus on a female criminal’s life in 18th-century London is exactly what the question highlights. A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical account of a plague outbreak, not a biography of a criminal woman; Robinson Crusoe is about a man’s solitary survival; Roxana concerns a woman’s experiences of relationships and social ascent but does not center on a London-based conwoman in the way Moll Flanders does.