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Roxana, or the Fortunate Mistress

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Roxana, or the Fortunate Mistress, a novel by Defoe, published 1724.

This purports to be the autobiography of Mlle Beleau, the beautiful daughter of French Protestant refugees, brought up in England and married to a London brewer, who, having squandered his property, deserts her and her five children. She enters upon a career of prosperous wickedness, passing from one protector to another in England, France, and Holland, amassing much wealth, and receiving the name Roxana by accident, in consequence of a dance that she performs.

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Roxana

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Roxana or Roxane , d. 311 BC, wife of Alexander the Great . She was the daughter of Oxyartes, a Bactrian baron, and Alexander married her (327) to consolidate his power in Persia. She and Alexander's posthumous son, Alexander IV, were, after Alexander's death, embroiled in the wars of the Diadochi and were imprisoned by Cassander at Amphipolis in Macedonia. They were later killed.

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	The 1740 Roxana: Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, and domestic fiction. Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2009
	Arguments to the self in Defoe's 'Roxana.' (Daniel Defoe) Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1994
	A Sermon by the "Queen of Whores".(Daniel Defoe's 'Roxana')(Critical Essay) Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/2001