Moll | Flanders

Is Moll’s criminal career—ranging from expert pickpocketing to a series of strategic marriages—a moral failure or a rational response to a system that gave her no other choice? 2. The 18th-Century "Influencer": Posing vs. Reality

A great post could frame Moll not as a villain, but as a ultimate survivalist. Born in Newgate Prison and orphaned early, Moll navigates a world that offers almost no legal path to independence for women. Moll Flanders

For Moll, "poverty is not a state of virtue but an intolerable condition". Moll Flanders