I’m going to put it out there and say I think this was the worst book I have ever read. This may be as a result of the time pressure I had in reading this book, having only two days before I have a lecture on it, however the style and content of Defoe’s story, or “history” as he claimed it to be did not make the time pressure any easier. Written in 1724, it has no chapters, random capitalisations and punctuation marks, and refuses to name any male character throughout the story, of which makes it really difficult to follow as the whole book is about the title character having affairs with various men and then having zero care for her children. Not to mention the book has no chapters and hardly any paragraphs, therefore is a lump of 330 pages of straight text. Though some of these formatting elements are interesting in analysis, it made reading it a huge burden, and both the plot and character development within the book are highly lacking. I would highly recommend you to never burden yourself in reading this book.