Henry Fielding

AC seems to remind her reader that she has risen socially through her own efforts when she calls her position as a married inn-keeper a middling state.

Here, she said later, she came to life under the influence of her tutor, Dorothy Bednarowska , who taught me to read on the nuance and complexity of Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde. This...

In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson ) a topic of conversation, and that (in her own judgement) Fielding and Smollett , and various...

She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen , George Eliot , Margaret Oliphant , Henry Fielding , Laurence Sterne , Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe

The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they...

Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio...

SF 's most important sibling was her brother Henry , first as the eldest child and later as a highly successful novelist and playwright (as well as theatre manager and lawyer). She kept house for...

EH 's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally...

She met Sarah Fielding at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding , Saunders Welch (the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery . She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with...

JC was a lifelong friend of Sarah Fielding and her brother Henry (who famously mentioned in a book inscription her understanding more than Female, mixed with virtues almost more than human), and of...

Her picture of ecclesiastical life features the other-worldly curate, Slender, the satirically-drawn rector, the Rev. Mr Plufty, and their respective daughters. ES gives much of the story in the words of Slender's journal (always unworldly...

Behn is presented in this piece as dressed in the loose Robe de Chambre with her neck and Breasts bare; how much Fire in her Eye! The other (male) occupants of Poets' Corner reject...

In her paratexts EP addresses the reader as he and (somewhat familiarly, in the style of Henry Fielding ) as thou. The preface takes a playfully insulting tone with readers. She tells them they...

The protagonist's name had been used by both Richardson (in Clarissa) and Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) as a kind of generic appellation for a specific maid or young woman of the servant...

Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone has been added to the...