Henry Fielding

AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...

When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter she mulled over religious and literary questions...

Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what...

EM seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). In the dialogues she...

In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

Though the authors declare on their opening page that the modern need is to supplement the exhaustive Baedeker with a selective guidebook (something designed to tell travellers what they cannot afford to miss), they actually...

ES wrote by hand a long letter from Bow Street Police Court to C. P. Scott , editor of the Manchester Guardian and thus her employer, in the light of her probably fast-approaching incarceration.

Again the print-run was 600 copies. At the end of this year, in December, Henry Fielding published his final novel, also titled Amelia. The continuing advertisements of Justice's Amelia up to this date are...

The first volume has a frontispiece (two women meeting a man in armour) and the title-page quotes some lines about the insecurity of a throne won through ambition. These are ascribed to Fielding 's Merope...

Henry Fielding 's novel Joseph Andrews was published: its inset tale of Leonora and Horatio was probably written by SF .

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 .

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

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.

She had worked on this novel both at Pégomas near Cannes in the South of France and at her home in Kensington. For some reason she found none of her usual pleasure in composition...