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Connections
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|---|---|---|
| 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, 1754. 206 Henry Fielding
, for instance, presents some... |
| 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, 2 vols. 1: 118 |
| 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... |
| Education | Fredrika Bremer | As FB grew older, she became increasingly interested in novels. At the age of fifteen she was beyond measure happy Bremer, Fredrika. Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer. Editor Bremer, Charlotte, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868, https://archive.org/details/lifelettersposth00bremuoft/mode/2up. 34 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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), qtd. in Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, 5 Mar. 2004, 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 | Margaret Legge | When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Djuna Barnes | Henry Fielding
Barnes dubbed her heroine, Evangeline Musset, a female Tom Jones. qtd. in Lanser, Susan Sniader, and Djuna Barnes. “Introduction”. Ladies Almanack, New York University Press, 1992, p. xv - li. xxix |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Haswell Rowson | As the title implies, the primary speaker and instructor is the father of the family, whose name, Mr Allworthy, comes from Henry Fielding
. The mother plays supporter to him. Both encourage the children to... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Thicknesse | Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone
has been added to the... |
Timeline
By 8 June 1725: The criminal Jonathan Wild was hanged: Daniel...
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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.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
xxii
McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of Jonathan WildStudies in the Novel, Vol.
30
, No. 2, 1 June 1998– 2024, pp. 211-31. 225
The date is that of Defoe's catchpenny biography.
16 February 1728: Henry Fielding's first play, Love in Several...
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16 February 1728
Henry Fielding
's first play, Love in Several Masques, opened on stage.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2.2: 959
30 March 1730: Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce opened...
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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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 3, 45
30 March 1730: Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce opened...
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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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 3, 45
Valentine's Day 1732: Henry Fielding's The Modern Husband opened;...
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Valentine's Day 1732
Henry Fielding
's The Modern Husband opened; it was published the same month.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 190
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
296-7
5 February 1737: The Opposition journal Common Sense; or,...
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5 February 1737
The Opposition journal Common Sense; or, The Englishman's Journal published its first number.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
105n2
Battestin, Martin C., and Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1989.
222
21 March 1737: Henry Fielding's last play, The Historical...
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21 March 1737
Henry Fielding
's last play, The Historical Register for the Year 1736, was first performed.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3.2: 651
21 June 1737: The Licensing Act received royal assent:...
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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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: l-li
15 November 1739: The first number appeared of The Champion,...
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15 November 1739
The first number appeared of The Champion, an Opposition periodical by Henry Fielding
and James Ralph
.
Graham, Walter. English Literary Periodicals. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930.
156
4 April 1741: Henry Fielding, publishing as Conny Keyber,...
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4 April 1741
Henry Fielding
, publishing as Conny Keyber, led the rush of response to Richardson
's Pamela with a burlesque entitled Shamela.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xli
April 1743: Henry Fielding published Miscellanies: the...
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April 1743
Henry Fielding
published Miscellanies: the third volume contained The History of the Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild.
Rogers, Pat. Henry Fielding: A Biography. Paul Elek, 1979.
129, 135
15 September 1743: The Champion, an Opposition periodical previously...
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15 September 1743
The Champion, an Opposition periodical previously written by Henry Fielding
and James Ralph
, ceased publication.
Graham, Walter. English Literary Periodicals. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930.
156
5 November 1745: The first number appeared of Henry Fielding's...
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5 November 1745
The first number appeared of Henry Fielding
's anti-Jacobite periodical The 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.
November 1746: Mary Hamilton was convicted of crimes of...
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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.
Fielding, Henry. The Female Husband, and Other Writings. Editor Jones, Claude E., Liverpool University Press, 1960, http://BLC.
57
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. The Female Husband, and Other Writings, edited by Claude E. Jones, Liverpool University Press, 1960.
xi
5 December 1747: The first number appeared of Henry Fielding's...
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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. 1992–1998, 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 et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
Fielding, Henry. Shamela. A. Dodd, 1741.
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.
Hatchett, William et al. The Opera of Operas. W. Rayner, 1733.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. A. Millar, 6 vols.