(London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1930), I, p. 308.

31. John Evelyn, Silva: Or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions, fourth edn (London: Robert Scott, Richard Chiswell, George Sawbridge and Benjamin Tooke, 1706), p. 341.

32. Paula R. Backscheider, Daniel Defoe: Ambition & Innovation (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1986), pp. 86-7.

Further Reading

Alkon, Paul K., Defoe and Fictional Time (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979). Contains a critically acute discussion of the temporal structure of The Storm.

Backscheider, Paula R., Daniel Defoe: Ambition & Innovation (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1986). Focuses on the technical achievements of Defoe’s major narratives.

—,Daniel Defoe: His Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). An excellent and thoroughly researched biography.

Brayne, Martin, The Greatest Storm (Stroud: Sutton, 2002). A valuable in-depth study of the 1703 storm and its aftermath.

Defoe, Daniel, The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings, ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (London: Penguin Books, 1997). Contains the full texts of The True-Born Englishman, The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters and A Hymn to the Pillory.

Furbank, P.N. and W.R. Owens, The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988). A cogent discussion of the changing nature of Defoe’s posthumous reputation.

—,Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1998). The latest and most convincing attempt to solve the ongoing attributions problem, as well as an unparalleled single source of information on everything published by Defoe.

Heller, Keith, Man’s Storm: A Story of London’s Parish Watch, 1703 (London: Collins, 1985). Entertaining historical crime novel set during the night of the storm, in which Defoe makes a cameo appearance.

Hill, George, Hurricane Force: The Story of the Storm of October 1987 (London: Collins, 1988). An illustrated account of the 1987 storm which takes Defoe’s earlier study as its template.

Jankoviç, Vladimir, Reading the Skies: A Cultural History of English Weather, 1650-1820 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001). An excellent background history of early meteorology in Britain.

Lindsay, Jack, The Monster City: Defoe’s London, 1688-1730 (London: Granada, 1978). A guide to the economic and political realities of Defoe’s day-to-day existence.

Moore, John Robert, Defoe in the Pillory, and Other Studies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1939). Makes the case for viewing 1703 as the turning point in Defoe’s life and career.

Novak, Maximillian E., Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). A superb biographical and critical account of Defoe’s literary career.

Starr, G.A., Defoe and Spiritual Autobiography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965). Relates many of Defoe’s works, including The Storm, to earlier forms of religious and confessional writing.

Trevelyan, George Macaulay, England Under Queen Anne, 3 vols. (London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1930). Trevelyan’s remains the best general account of the period, complete with a bravura description of the 1703 storm.

Vickers, Ilsa, Defoe and the New Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Places Defoe in a seventeenth-century scientific context through a study of his education at Newington Green.

West, Richard, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe (London: HarperCollins, 1997). A lively biography which emphasizes Defoe’s later career as a journalist and a spy.

A Note on the Texts

This edition of The Storm is based on the first edition, which appeared between 14 and 17 July 1704. It was advertised as having appeared ‘yesterday’ in the Post-Man for 15-18 July 1704 and as ‘just published’ in the Review for 29 July 1704. A second edition appeared in January 1713, with a new title-page: A Collection of the most remarkable Casualties and Disasters, Which happen’d in the late dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and Land, on Friday the Twenty-sixth of November, Seventeen Hundred and Three (London: George Sawbridge and J.