Moll Flanders is artistically a more mature piece than Robinson Crusoe. It is written in an autobiographical form called memoirs. In Moll Flanders, Defoe introduces, for the first time, a lowly woman as the subject of literature. And it anticipates many later novels that take women as the center of attention in order to expose how the social system has victimized those like Moll. 《摩尔·弗兰德斯》在艺术上比《鲁滨逊漂流记》更加趋于成熟，它是以自传体的形式来创作的，这一形式被称作回忆录。在这部作品中，笛福首次以卑微的女性形象为创作中心，他预见以后很多的小说都要以女性为中心，以揭露残酷的社会体制对像摩尔一样女性的迫害。