SOURCE: Swan, Beth. “Moll Flanders: The Felon as Lawyer.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11, no. 1 (October 1998): 33-48.
In the following essay, Swan places Moll's trial at Newgate into context as a didactic comment on legal reform, highlighting the role of “judicial discourse” in Moll's narrative.
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