Henry Fielding

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...

Her introduction calls Sarah Fielding a sister of the celebrated Fielding , and says that she, Sherwood, has retained the main story, the old-fashioned language, and just one of the fairy-tales as a sample of...

ES wrote by hand a long letter from Bow Street Police Court to C. P. Scott , editor of the Manchester Guardian and thus her employer, in the light of her probably fast-approaching incarceration.

AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...

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...

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

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...

Again the sexual content was an issue. Devlin finds both reticence and modesty in EAR , but critics found the book's sexual candour appalling, or called it crude or [r]ather too full blooded, or...

This ground-breaking novel provoked wild enthusiasm among general readers, and a number of unauthorised continuations. Henry Fielding 's Shamela and Eliza Haywood 's Anti-Pamela are the most satirical among these.

BP deliberately situates some of her stories in long traditions. The eponymous hero and heroine in Two Bad Mice are named after Henry Fielding 's tiny prototype Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca in the mock-heroic...

The narrator claims not to be TCP , but a close male friend. A prime suspect is the hack writer Paul Whitehead , who was one of her lovers. Nevertheless the tone has convinced many...

The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson says that in JamaicaTCP acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect...

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...

In the book of the non-existent film, chapters have sub-Henry-Fielding descriptive titles (In which Sir Roderick survives and Isabella returns to the home from which she has lately fled). In the first chapter...

EM seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). In the dialogues she...