Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Collier | JC
was a lifelong friend of Sarah Fielding
and her brother Henry
(who famously mentioned in a book inscription her understanding more than Female, mixed with virtues almost more than human), |
| 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 | 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... |
| Literary responses | Jane Collier | The book's authorship is generally accepted, although Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
has written that JC
produced it evidently with some assistance from Fielding
. Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissa’s Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of a Young Lady</span>”;. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, pp. 45-67. 64n14 |
| Textual Production | Mary Collyer | Marivaux' full title, La vie de Marianne; ou, Les aventures de Madame la Comtesse de*****, suggests a story from actual life. MC
wrote most of her version before 1741 (very soon after the French... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Collyer | The protagonist's name had been used by both Richardson
(in Clarissa) and Henry Fielding
(in Tom Jones) as a kind of generic appellation for a specific maid or young woman of the servant... |
| Cultural formation | Ann Cook | AC
seems to remind her reader that she has risen socially through her own efforts when she calls her position as a married inn-keeper a middling state. Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. White. 206 Henry Fielding
, for instance, presents some... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond, a young man seeking a role-model, turns at first to Fielding
's Tom Jones, but later and more laudably to Richardson
's Sir Charles Grandison. |
| Textual Production | George Eliot | In December 1870 she began writing Miss Brooke, a narrative which became part of Middlemarch as the history of its heroine. Not long after this she thought of combining this story of a daughter... |
| Education | U. A. Fanthorpe | Here, she said later, she came to life under the influence of her tutor, Dorothy Bednarowska
, who taught me to read on the nuance and complexity of Chaucer
's Troilus and Criseyde. This... |
| 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. xl |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Fielding | SF
's most important sibling was her brother Henry
, first as the eldest child and later as a highly successful novelist and playwright (as well as theatre manager and lawyer). She kept house for... |
Timeline
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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