At the start of the novel named for her, she has an affair with her mistress's youngest son, who refuses to marry her and gives her to his short-lived brother Robin.
Paula Backscheider analyzed this character in a book subtitled The Making of a Criminal Mind. She writes alternate lines of a love poem using a diamond ring with one man, while another insists they can lie in bed naked without having sex. At the start of the novel named for her, she has an affair with her mistress's youngest son, who refuses to marry her and gives her to his short-lived brother Robin. She finally returns to her England with her Lancashire husband after spending her later years with her Virginia family, which include the half-brother she accidentally married as well as their mother, who had escaped Newgate by "pleading her belly," though she herself ended up there for theft. For 10 points, name this picaresque heroine created by Daniel Defoe.
Paula Backscheider analyzed this character in a book subtitled The Making of a Criminal Mind.
{Moll Flanders} (accept Mrs. {Betty} or variants)