Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. White, 1754.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Henry Fielding
, for instance, presents some... |
| 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... |
| Education | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson
) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. 1: 118 |
| Education | Sarah Orne Jewett | She read extensively as a child, and came early to authors as diverse as Jane Austen
, George Eliot
, Margaret Oliphant
, Henry Fielding
, Laurence Sterne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
| 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... |
| Fictionalization | Eliza Haywood | EH
's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally... |
| 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), Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 14 |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Fielding | The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with... |
| 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 | Beatrix Potter | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | Selima is a writing heroine: her poems are interspersed in the text, since as she says, As I grow sick or unhappy, I grow poetical. Holford, Margaret. Selima; or, The Village Tale. Hookham; P. Broster, 1793. 2: 73 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho... |
Timeline
By 8 June 1725
The criminal Jonathan Wild
was hanged: Daniel Defoe
wrote a hasty account of his life, and eighteen years later Henry Fielding
made him a mock-heroic over-reacher.
16 February 1728
Henry Fielding
's first play, Love in Several Masques, opened on stage.
30 March 1730
Henry Fielding
's The Author's Farce opened at his Little Theatre in the Haymarket
, which was currently presenting its first season.
30 March 1730
Henry Fielding
's The Author's Farce opened at his Little Theatre in the Haymarket
, which was currently presenting its first season.
Valentine's Day 1732
Henry Fielding
's The Modern Husband opened; it was published the same month.
5 February 1737
The Opposition journalCommon Sense; or, The Englishman's Journal published its first number.
21 March 1737
Henry Fielding
's last play, The Historical Register for the Year 1736, was first performed.
21 June 1737
The Licensing Act received royal assent: the number of legitimate theatres in London was set at two, and plays were subject to censorship by the Lord Chamberlain.
15 November 1739
The first number appeared of The Champion, an Opposition periodical by Henry Fielding
and James Ralph
.
4 April 1741
Henry Fielding
, publishing as Conny Keyber, led the rush of response to Richardson
's Pamela with a burlesque entitled Shamela.
April 1743
Henry Fielding
published Miscellanies: the third volume contained The History of the Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild.
15 September 1743
The Champion, an Opposition periodical previously written by Henry Fielding
and James Ralph
, ceased publication.
5 November 1745
The first number appeared of Henry Fielding
's anti-Jacobite periodicalThe True Patriot: and the history of our own times.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
November 1746
Mary Hamilton
was convicted of crimes of deception including marrying a series of women while posing as a man; Henry Fielding
published The Female Husband about the case.
5 December 1747
The first number appeared of Henry Fielding
's second anti-Jacobite periodical, The Jacobite's Journal, published under the name of the ranting and drunken John Trott-Plaid.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Texts
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. The Female Husband, and Other Writings, edited by Claude E. Jones, Liverpool University Press, 1960.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender, John Bender, Simon Stern, John Bender, and Simon Stern, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press, 1993.
Fielding, Henry. The Covent-Garden Journal. Editor Jensen, Gerard Edward, Vol.
2 vols.
, Russell and Russell, 1964. Fielding, Henry. The Female Husband, and Other Writings. Editor Jones, Claude E., Liverpool University Press, 1960. http://BLC, http://BLC.
Hatchett, William, Eliza Haywood, and Henry Fielding. The Opera of Operas. W. Rayner, 1733.