Henry Fielding

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.

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...

This is a novel of courtship among upper-class characters: its title-page invokes the genre of Restoration comedy by quoting Vanbrugh —a different quotation from the one from him SG had used in 1810. But it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

She also adapted works by Henry Fielding and George Lillo , and a version of the Inkle and Yarico story originated by Richard Steele and versified by Frances, Lady Hertford .

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...

In JF 's Joseph in Jeopardy (whose hero's first name, mentioned in the title, seems to allude both to the Bible and to Henry Fielding 's Joseph Andrews) the hero resists seduction by a...