Roxana Defoe's final novel, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724), which narrates the moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan, differs from other Defoe works because the main character does not exhibit a conversion experience, even though she claims to be a penitent later in her life, at the time that she is relating her story.
Roxana Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724), which narrates the moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan, differs from other Defoe wor,ks because the main character does not exhibit a conversion experience, even though she claims to be a penitent later in her life, at the time that she is relating her story.