Defoe already had a long and prolific career as a noted political journalist when he published his first novel, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, in 1719. It was followed by The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1721), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History Of The Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of… the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana (1724). His many social and political pieces include The True-Born Englishman (1701), The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), Reformation of Manners (1704), a periodical publication entitled The Review (1704-1713), and Family Instructor (1715), and Religious Courtship (1729). Defoe was also well known for essays on timely social issues, stories of the supernatural, and accounts of notorious criminals such as True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal. (1705) and The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard (1724).