Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
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Textual Features | Anna Maria Mackenzie | 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... |
Textual Features | Sarah Green | |
Textual Features | Mary Martha Sherwood | 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... |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | It vividly reflects the liveliness and originality of JC
's mind, her interest in books (from the classics and the Bible to very recent publications), education, women's issues, family life, and in moral interpretation of... |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | In the novel Leonora relates in a letter the story of her unhappy love. The benevolent Parson Adams keeps groaning in sympathy as he hears the letter read aloud; this is probably a compliment by... |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but... |
Textual Features | Louise Page | 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... |
Textual Features | Catherine Talbot | CT
's letters often convey her literary opinions, discussing writing by, for instance, Marie de Sévigné
, Richardson
, Henry Fielding
and Samuel Johnson
. She also writes of the details of her daily life... |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson
and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding
and Samuel Richardson
, which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen... |
Textual Features | Mary Herberts | This ambivalently presented woman writer specialises in highflown rhetoric whose literal version is bathetic, foreshadowing a technique of Henry Fielding
: the Sun beginning (in the Countess's style) to hasten to the Embraces of his... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Lennox | 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... |
Residence | Sarah Fielding | SF
lived with and kept house for her brother Henry
in Old Boswell Court, London, from the time of his first wife's death until his second marriage. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne. xi |
Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford
had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope
, thus... |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | A second edition of SF
's David Simple replaced the first, with revisions and an enthusiastic preface by her brother Henry
. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
Publishing | Eliza Haywood | In England this work did not succeed in catching the success of Pamela: its copyright failed to sell in 1754 and fetched only a nominal half-guinea the next year. But in Europe it was... |
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