Описание: This London County Council (LCC) blue plaque is in Defoe Road N16. It's on the side wall of the white and blue shopfront at 95 Church Street. The plaque marks a former residence of the trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy Daniel Defoe. Defoe is probably most famous for the books Robinson Crusoe, and Moll Flanders. My favourite anecdote about Defoe is that, in 1703, as part of his punishment for publishing a satirical pamphlet, he was sentenced to public humiliation by standing in the pillory. But instead of getting pelted with the usual rotten food, mud, dog turds etc, people threw flowers. § The website of the Defoe Society (click link) says that: "Defoe's friends turned the public punishment into an opportunity; not only did they stand around him as he stood in the device, [the pillory] but the occasion was used to sell his poem 'Hymn to the Pillory', a poem that ridicules the justice system, to the public." § Wikipedia entry on Daniel Defoe. § Defoe was born Daniel Foe. (He added the 'De' later.) His mother Annie had died by the time he was about ten. His father James Foe was a tallow chandler and a member of the Worshipful Company of Butchers. § Tallow: rendered animal fat; usually from beef or mutton. Chandler: candle maker / merchant. More expensive candles were made from beeswax.
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