Summary Once, Moll was almost caught as she tried to steal a gold watch from a lady. Using the techniques she had learned from her first accomplice, Moll discovered that the watch was too securely fastened to the lady’s side. Realizing that she was in danger of being discovered, Moll […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 17 – A Clever Escape and a DisguiseSummary and Analysis Chapter 16 – Adventures with the Midwife
Summary The friendship Moll intended to renew was with the midwife, to whom she had sent ?5 a year for the support of her child until, after the death of her banker husband, she became too poor to continue to do so. However, Moll had written a letter explaining that […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 16 – Adventures with the MidwifeSummary and Analysis Chapter 15 – The Turning Point
Summary Life was now tranquil, for the banker husband was quiet, sensible, and virtuous. In business he was hard-working and just and was able to provide his family with a good living. Moll chose to live a retired and frugal life, and, therefore, they did not visit or have visitors. […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 15 – The Turning PointSummary and Analysis Chapter 14 – A Surprising Event
Summary Moll now began to correspond regularly with her friend at the bank. About the beginning of July she wrote him that she planned to be in town in August. The banker said he would arrange to meet her. Because she wanted the banker to believe that she had been […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 14 – A Surprising EventSummary and Analysis Chapter 13 – Another Child
Summary Moll moved into London the day after Jemmy left. There she reflected happily on the pleasant hours she had spent with him; this happiness was short-lived, however, because she discovered she was pregnant. The one bright light was that, through her correspondence with the bank clerk during these seven […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 13 – Another ChildSummary and Analysis Chapter 12 – Another Marriage
Summary After about two months of happy marriage and expensive living, Moll’s husband suggested they go to his estate in Ireland. He also suggested that Moll would probably want to return to London to settle her affairs and to transfer her funds to Ireland. Moll, startled at this suggestion, said […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 12 – Another MarriageSummary and Analysis Chapter 11 – Another Courtship
Summary Moll was alone again without adviser or friend; unable to advise herself, she lost one hundred pounds which she had entrusted to a goldsmith. Knowing that she wanted a settled life but not how to obtain it, she lived frugally on her small store of money. All she wanted […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 11 – Another CourtshipSummary and Analysis Chapter 10 – Another Lover
Summary Three months later, when the season ended at Bath, the gentleman invited Moll to accompany him to London. Before she had decided whether or not to do so, he became quite ill on a business trip, and sent for Moll. She brought him back to Bath and nursed him […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 10 – Another LoverSummary and Analysis Chapter 9 – A Return to London
Summary After a stormy journey, Moll finally arrived in London with a good part of her possessions spoiled and only about ?300 with which to begin a new life. She was without friends, for she found it unwise to renew old acquaintances, and the captain and his lady who had […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 9 – A Return to LondonSummary and Analysis Chapter 8 – A Tragic Marriage
Summary Moll was very happy until her mother-in-law, a good-humored old woman, began one of the numerous stories of her youth. She told Moll that most of the inhabitants of the colony had either been brought by captains of ships and sold as servants or “transported from Newgate and other […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Chapter 8 – A Tragic Marriage