Every-body's Business, Is No-body's Business

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Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business: Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances Exemplified is a 1725 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe.{{cite book |last=P B |first=Backscheider |date=1989 |title=Daniel Defoe. His Life |location=Baltimore and London |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |page=517}} It deals with the "exorbitant Wages of our Women, Servants, Footmen".{{cite book |last=J |first=Richetti |date=2008 |title=The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=40}} Similarly to The Protestant Monastery (1726), Parochial Tyranny (1727), Augusta Triumphans (1728) and Second Thoughts are Best (1729), it was published under the pseudonym of Andrew Moreton. Defoe did not sign his name to the majority of his works.{{cite journal |last=J R |first=Moore |date=1971 |title=Defoe's Persona as Author: The Quaker's Sermon |jstor= 449910|journal=SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 |publisher=Rice University |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=507–516 |doi=10.2307/449910 }} He preferred them to be published anonymously or under one of his pen names. This choice was “sometimes” made “to conceal his authorship or to stimulate sales, but more characteristically to establish a point of view”.