@article{599797, note = {Written in the first person, but in fact by Daniel Defoe.}, author = {Defoe, Daniel,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/599797}, title = {The life and adventures of Roxana, the fortunate mistress, or, most unhappy wife. In three parts. Containing, I An Account of her Birth in France, and coming to England. - II. Her marriage in London with a Brewer, who run out of his Estate, and left her with five Children. - III. Hercohabiting with her Landlord; their Journey to Paris, where he was robbed and murdered. - IV. Her being fell in Love with by the Prince of-; and seeing her husband in the Gens d'arms Guard. The Prince leaves her, &c. - V. The Dealings she had with a Dutch Merchant and a Jew, the latter of whom wanted to defraud her of a great part of her jewels: her going to Rotterdam, where she sees the Dutch Merchant, to whom she soon after became a Bedfellow. - VI. Her Return to England, where she had the Name of Roxana. Her Marriage with the Dutch Merchant in London, who was naturalized and created a Baronet. The Miseries she and her Maid Amy afterwards fell into. Adorned with a curious Print of Roxana, in her Turkish Dress. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed for S. Crowder, in Pater-Noster Row, and S. Gamidge, in Worcester,}, recid = {599797}, pages = {144p.,plates ;}, address = {London :}, year = {1765}, }