Editing Daniel Defoe (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Bunhill Fields, London 13.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Bunhill Fields]] monument detail]]

Defoe died on 24 April 1731, in Ropemakers Alley, not far from where he was born in Cripplegate, probably while in hiding from his creditors.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://islingtonguidedwalks.com/daniel-defoe/|title=Daniel Defoe|date=13 November 2022}}</ref> He was often in debtors' prison.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rogers |first=Pat |year=1971 |title=Defoe in the Fleet Prison |journal=The Review of English Studies |volume=22 |issue=88 |pages=451–455 |doi=10.1093/res/XXII.88.451 |jstor=513276}}</ref> The cause of his death was labelled as lethargy, but he probably experienced a stroke.<ref name=":0"/> He was interred in [[Bunhill Fields]] (today Bunhill Fields Burial and Gardens), just outside the medieval boundaries of the City of London, in what is now the [[Borough of Islington]], where a monument was erected to his memory in 1870.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Maev |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/feb/22/bunhill-fields-bunyan-defoe-blake |title=Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status |date=22 February 2011 |work=The Guardian |access-date=21 January 2015}}</ref> A street in the [[The Bronx|Bronx]], New York, is named in his honour (De Foe Place).<ref>{{cite book |last=McNamara |first=John |author-link= |date=1991 |title=History in Asphalt |url= |location=Harrison, NY |publisher=Harbor Hill Books |page=65 |isbn=0-941980-15-4}}</ref>