Henry Fielding

Again the print-run was 600 copies. At the end of this year, in December, Henry Fielding published his final novel, also titled Amelia. The continuing advertisements of Justice's Amelia up to this date are...

She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George . This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...

Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what...

She had worked on this novel both at Pégomas near Cannes in the South of France and at her home in Kensington. For some reason she found none of her usual pleasure in composition...

The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML may have been one among...

In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...

When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with...

CL 's The Female Quixote was crucially reviewed by Henry Fielding in his Covent Garden Journal.

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...

The novel's opening is an early example of a technique which was to remain popular with authors for generations: About the middle of July 17 — . . . , where the precise day and...

Again Lennox gives her chapters titles which foretell their contents in the FieldingSarah Fielding manner. Of the sister heroines, Harriot is beautiful and spoiled by her mother, a less forgiveable coquette than her namesake in Harriot...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

Her first chapter explicitly addresses critics, and the authorial voice is often in dialogue with imagined readers—who are given a kind of life as typical young eligibles: the lovely Florinda and her favoured swain.AL

The Critical Review praised AL 's ability to invent and entertain, but objected to the detailed depiction of villainy (inviting imitation) and the authorial remarks in the manner of Fielding , without his genius...

AMM 's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding and Richardson (to...