So this is it…, this project is the result of seeking information, through books and Internet, I must admit it was a very difficult project, because there wasn´t much information about Daniel Defoe on the internet, just the kind of subjects, like biographies ( a lot on that subject) and bibliographies (of books!). For a more profound analysis of the author and the novel, I had to search through manuals and anthologies and also through different publications of the novel, three of them to be exact.
But after all this work, I must confess it was all very well worth it, I discovered many interesting things about Daniel Defoe and his time and also the meaning behind his novel " Robinson Crusoe".

In the making of this project I have tried to focus on all areas of Daniel Defoe´s ideas and beleifs, like Religion, Economy, Colonialism, Realism… and also a very unknown aspect about Defoe´s inclination on the education of women, It was, indeed, very strange, that a man of the eighteenth century could ever worry about the education of women, since in his time, women were forbidden to receive the same education as men.

To conclude, I hope you have enjoyed the reading of this project, and also I hope you have learned something more about
Daniel Defoe, and if you haven´t read " Robinson Crusoe" yet, What are you waiting for?.

                                                                                                                              CATALINA DIAZ BEVERIDGE.

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