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 | Sarah Fielding | She described herself as the Author of David Simple on the title-page of this and of all her subsequent fictional works. She did not put her name on a title-page until her last book. This... |
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... |
Literary Setting | Sarah Fielding | The form is epistolary: not an exchange of letters but a single, retrospective letter in which the now older Ophelia looks back. The heroine, brought up in isolation in Wales by an aunt who has... |
Residence | Sarah Fielding | SF
lived with and kept house for her brother Henry
in Old Boswell Court, London, from the time of his first wife's death until his second marriage. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne. xi |
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. xxxviii |
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. xxxvix |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | A second edition of SF
's David Simple replaced the first, with revisions and an enthusiastic preface by her brother Henry
. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
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... |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | 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... |
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 | 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... |
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. |
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 |
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