The Ordbord Journal

The Women Who Invented the Novel

The Women Who Invented the Novel

We were all told the same myth: “when Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719, he invented the English novel.” But that easy story obscures many women writers who helped...

The Women Who Invented the Novel

We were all told the same myth: “when Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719, he invented the English novel.” But that easy story obscures many women writers who helped...