Henry Fielding

Ormond, a young man seeking a role-model, turns at first to Fielding 's Tom Jones, but later and more laudably to Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison.

Selima is a writing heroine: her poems are interspersed in the text, since as she says, As I grow sick or unhappy, I grow poetical. By midway in the last volume she is...

As its title implies, this novel sets out to flout fictional convention in its bourgeois attitudes and ineligible characters. For both preface and narrative RH adopts the persona of the ugly Old Bachelor, Gilbert Grubthorpe...

The story opens with Frederic Duvalvin rushing to the aid of an aged peasant and his mule (though he ruins his clothes in doing so), while his cousin Lorenzo di Rozezzi refuses to help. (These...

Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke 's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni ).

This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid 's description of chaos. SG slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...

As the title implies, the primary speaker and instructor is the father of the family, whose name, Mr Allworthy, comes from Henry Fielding . The mother plays supporter to him. Both encourage the children to...

She points out that for all Brunton's highly moralistic intentions, the reason that her Laura needs self-control is that her feelings are passionate, and also that Laura is attracted to heroes created by women...

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...

Each volume has an introductory chapter, addressing the reader in the manner of, and with some images borrowed from, Henry Fielding or Laurence Sterne (the latter, indeed, is mentioned by name). MM hopes her reader...

The title-page bears a quotation from Prior 's verse romance Henry and Emma, but SS lays explicit claim, too, to a canonical tradition of prose fiction. The book begins with a series of tales...

AMS borrows from Richardson a masquerade scene and her basic epistolary form, and radically revises a borrowing from him when her heroine stabs a would-be rapist with scissors. But her general tone and her enjoyment...

This satiric, self-reflexive entertainment makes minimal changes to its source, Henry Fielding 's The Tragedy of Tragedies (itself adapted from his Tom Thumb, 1730). There has been controversy over the Opera's music, which...

Henry Fielding Barnes dubbed her heroine, Evangeline Musset, a female Tom Jones. She adopts a mock eighteenth-century style. The book's full title—Ladies Almanack, showing their Signs and their tides; their Moons and their Changes; the...

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...