Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes which include her early seduction careers in crime & prostitution conviction for theft & transportation to the plantations of Virginia & her ultimate redemption & prosperity in the new World. Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be published in English & draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the topography & social conditions prevailing in the London of the late 17th century.