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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| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her... |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | A second edition of SF
's David Simple replaced the first, with revisions and an enthusiastic preface by her brother Henry
. |
| Author summary | Sarah Fielding | SF
, best known as a mid-eighteenth-century novelist, tried a range of other genres as well: history, criticism, a play, a translation, and a landmark children's book which is both a work of pedagogy and... |
| Author summary | Susan Smythies | SS
published three novels during the 1750s, which show her well versed both in the modern novel created by Henry Fielding
and Richardson
, and in an older tradition of satirical and didactic fiction relying... |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | EH
had a theatre benefit night performing in Fielding
's Historical Register for the Year 1736 and the afterpiece Eurydice Hiss'd. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 402ff |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | EH
appeared on stage as a member of Henry Fielding
's company at the Little Theatre
in the Haymarket. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
scored a personal success in Henry Fielding
's daring stage satire The Historical Register for the Year 1736, as the auctioneer Christopher Hen (modelled on the actual Christopher Cock
). Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62. 23-4 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 651 |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Fielding | The form is epistolary: not an exchange of letters but a single, retrospective letter in which the now older Ophelia looks back. The heroine, brought up in isolation in Wales by an aunt who has... |
| Literary responses | Penelope Aubin | Popular fiction of PA
's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding
's Jonathan Wild. McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Jonathan Wild</span>”;. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 30 , No. 2, pp. 211-31. 215 |
| Literary responses | Mary Charlton | The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC
had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Minifie | The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 50 (1780): 168 |
| Literary responses | Susan Smythies | The Critical Review later identified this story as an imitation of Henry Fielding
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 7 (1759): 79 |
| Literary responses | Susan Smythies | 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... |
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