Henry Fielding

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Standard Name: Fielding, Henry

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Textual Production Anna Maria Mackenzie
Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM ) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson , to emulate Henry Fielding and Smollett ...
Textual Production Elizabeth Justice
Again the print-run was 600 copies. At the end of this year, in December, Henry Fielding published his final novel, also titled Amelia. The continuing advertisements of Justice's Amelia up to this date are...
Textual Production Anna Maria Mackenzie
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...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
Henry Fielding 's novel Joseph Andrews was published: its inset tale of Leonora and Horatio was probably written by SF .
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 Production Evelyn Sharp
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.
The...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
Henry Fielding published a fantasy-fiction, A Journey from This World to the Next, whose last chapter, Anne Boleyn 's account of her life, is probably by SF .
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 Production Lady Margaret Sackville
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...
Textual Production Annie Keary
She had worked on this novel both at Pégomas near Cannes in the South of France and at her home in Kensington. For some reason she found none of her usual pleasure in composition...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
SF worked with James Harris on a memoir, An Essay on the Life and Genius of Henry Fielding, for a projected edition of his works; but it never appeared.
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 Production Patricia Beer
PB published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne 's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding , the lawyer on circuit.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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...
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 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...
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...

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10 February 1749: Henry Fielding published Tom Jones, his comic...

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10 February 1749

Henry Fielding published Tom Jones, his comic epicpoem in prose, in six volumes containing three books each. It reached a (revised) fourth edition by 11 December.

19 December 1751: Henry Fielding published his last novel,...

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19 December 1751

Henry Fielding published his last novel, Amelia.

10 January 1752: Henry Fielding reported in his Covent Garden...

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10 January 1752

Henry Fielding reported in his Covent Garden Journal (launched on 4 January) the case of a seventy-year-old woman allegedly raped by a young man with two female accomplices.

16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...

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16 January-9 April 1752

Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant, Bonnell Thornton issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.

24 January 1752: Henry Fielding's Covent Garden Journal reported...

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24 January 1752

Henry Fielding 's Covent Garden Journal reported the case of a sixteen-year-old girl decoyed into a brothel and kept there by force; he advocated reform of the prostitution laws which were proving the ruin of...

1 January 1753: According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning,...

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1 January 1753

According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning , a maidservant, was abducted, after which she was imprisoned for days.

29 January 1753: Henry Fielding published A Proposal for making...

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29 January 1753

Henry Fielding published A Proposal for making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, which he planned to do by establishing a county workhouse system.

1774: The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice...

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1774

The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice in Miniature was published in twelve volumes of abridged texts by Sarah and Henry Fielding , Richardson , Smollett , and Lennox .

1792: Charles Cooke began publishing Select British...

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1792

Charles Cooke began publishing Select British Novels, modelled on the earlier serial collection by James Harrison .

September 1826: The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing...

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September 1826

The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing Sir Walter Scott 's Lives of the Novelists, omitted all mention of any female writer.

28 May 1959: The Mermaid Theatre, Puddle Dock, London,...

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28 May 1959

The Mermaid Theatre , Puddle Dock, London, was opened by Bernard Miles , with a performance of Lock Up Your Daughters (adapted from Rape Upon Rape by Henry Fielding ).

27 September 1968: The tribal love-rock musical Hair, a few...

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27 September 1968

The tribal love-rock musicalHair, a few months into its four-year run on Broadway, opened in London the day after censorship was ended by the Theatres Act.

14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...

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14 July 2006

The Bow Street Magistrates Court , one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.

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