Editing Daniel Defoe (section)

=== Education ===
Defoe was educated at the Rev. James Fisher's boarding school in Pixham Lane in [[Dorking]], Surrey.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bastian |first=F. |title=Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year Reconsidered |journal=The Review of English Studies |date=1965 |volume=16 |issue=62 |pages=151–173 |jstor=513101}}</ref> His parents were [[English Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] [[English Dissenters|dissenters]], and around the age of 14, he was sent to [[Charles Morton (educator)|Charles Morton]]'s [[Dissenting academies|dissenting academy]] at [[Newington Green]], then a village just north of London, where he is believed to have attended the [[Newington Green Unitarian Church|Dissenting church there]].<ref>[http://www.gradesaver.com/author/daniel-defoe/ Biography of Daniel Defoe (1659?–1731)]. Retrieved 1 August 2013.</ref><ref>"Defoe in Stoke Newington". Arthur Secord, P.M.L.A. Vol. 66, p. 211, 1951. Cited in Thorncroft, p. 9, who identifies him as "an American scholar".</ref> He lived on Church Street, Stoke Newington, at what is now nos. 95–103.<ref name="Council 2020">{{cite web |last=London County Council |date=6 October 2020 |title=Daniel Defoe – Blue Plaques |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/daniel-defoe/ |access-date=13 October 2020 |website=English Heritage}}</ref> During this period, the English government persecuted those who chose to worship outside the established [[Church of England]].