The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders: who was born in Newgate, and during a life of threescore years, besides her childhood, was twelve years a whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve years a thief, eight years a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, liv'd honest, and dy'd a penitent - Defoe, Daniel (Modern Library, 1940)