Defoe, the De la Faye letters and Mercurius Politicus

Furbank, P. N. and Owens, W. R. (2000). Defoe, the De la Faye letters and Mercurius Politicus. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23(1) pp. 13–19.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link:	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2000.tb00575.x
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Abstract

This article presents a new interpretation of the famous series of six letters written by Defoe in 1718 to Charles Delafaye, the Under-Secretary of State, in which he describes himself as having been employed by the Whig government to pass himself off as a Tory and insinuate himself into the management of Tory journals in order to weaken their attacks on the Whigs. It argues that these letters were a fiction, and that Defoe was instead deceiving his own Government paymasters.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Copyright Holders:	2000 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
ISSN:	0141-867X
Keywords:	English literature
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Art History, Classical Studies, English and Creative Writing, Music Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Item ID:	21592
Depositing User:	Jean Fone
Date Deposited:	23 Jul 2010 08:42
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2016 10:38
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/21592
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