Suggested reading:
Moll Flanders  (1974 edition),  Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders: The Making of a Criminal Mind  (1990), Paula R. Backscheider
The Making of Moll Flanders  (1997), Anthony Hayward
Critical Essays on Daniel Defoe  (1997), Roger D. Lund (Editor)
Daniel Defoe: His Life (1992), Paula R. Backscheider
Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures (1998), Richard West
A Defoe Companion  (1993), J. R. Hammond