Henry Fielding

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II , and...

Readers first encounter the young male protagonist, Henry Dellmore, bearing the nickname of Mumps, and suffering as a pupil at a Dickensian school, under the proprietor Mr Puffardo. Once taken up by benefactors, he...

Mary Russell Mitford read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural...

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...

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...

The Critical Review later identified this story as an imitation of Henry Fielding .

The Critical Review noted that SS was imitating Richardson in this novel (as she had imitated Fielding in her last). In The Brothers it found all the machinery of a modern novel, without the overall...