Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1822) Moll's mother is a prison convict in London who is transported to America where Moll is raised until adolescence by a foster mother. She becomes a servant and is loved by both sons, but the elder persuades her to marry his younger brother. When she is widowed, Moll leaves her children in the care of in-laws, and begins honing the skill of passing herself off as a wealthy widow to attract a man who will marry her.