Henry Fielding

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...

The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding 's Merope...

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...

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 novel opens self-consciously, desiring the reader not to be a severe critic and explaining that the characters first introduced, William Hoskins and his wife Jenny, are worthy, honest people without pedigree or honours.

The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself. It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...

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...

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...

Before she did so in public, LMWM replied in private to Pope's attacks, in responses to and imitations of his Dunciad: mock-epic fantasies in which Pope and his confederates appear somewhat awkwardly as allies...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.