Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709) (2021)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2021). Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709). Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 115(1), 79-86. https://doi.org/10.1086/712790

This article aims to remove the “probable” caveat from one title listed in P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens’s Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (1998). It demonstrates that previously overlooked external evidence confirms the internal evidence cited... Read More about Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709).

The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution (2019)
Journal Article
Seager. (2019). The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution. Notes and Queries, 66(1), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjy212

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Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession (2017)
Journal Article
Seager. (2017). Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession. Huntington Library Quarterly, 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0002

In this essay, Nicholas Seager argues for re-attributing two pamphlets to Daniel Defoe: A Secret History of One Year (1714) and Memoirs of the Conduct of Her Late Majesty and Her Last Ministry (1715). These works, published shortly after the Hanoveri... Read More about Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession.