Henry Fielding

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...

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...

Behn is presented in this piece as dressed in the loose Robe de Chambre with her neck and Breasts bare; how much Fire in her Eye! The other (male) occupants of Poets' Corner reject...

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...

Again Lennox gives her chapters titles which foretell their contents in the FieldingSarah Fielding manner. Of the sister heroines, Harriot is beautiful and spoiled by her mother, a less forgiveable coquette than her namesake in Harriot...

Her picture of ecclesiastical life features the other-worldly curate, Slender, the satirically-drawn rector, the Rev. Mr Plufty, and their respective daughters. ES gives much of the story in the words of Slender's journal (always unworldly...

Readers first encounter the young male protagonist, Henry Dellmore, bearing the nickname of Mumps, and suffering as a pupil at a Dickensian school, under the proprietor Mr Puffardo. Once taken up by benefactors, he...

The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II , and...

The protagonist's name had been used by both Richardson (in Clarissa) and Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) as a kind of generic appellation for a specific maid or young woman of the servant...

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. By midway in the last volume she is...

Her first chapter explicitly addresses critics, and the authorial voice is often in dialogue with imagined readers—who are given a kind of life as typical young eligibles: the lovely Florinda and her favoured swain.AL

In her paratexts EP addresses the reader as he and (somewhat familiarly, in the style of Henry Fielding ) as thou. The preface takes a playfully insulting tone with readers. She tells them they...

As its title implies, this novel sets out to flout fictional convention in its bourgeois attitudes and ineligible characters. For both preface and narrative RH adopts the persona of the ugly Old Bachelor, Gilbert Grubthorpe...

The title-page bears a quotation from Prior 's verse romance Henry and Emma, but SS lays explicit claim, too, to a canonical tradition of prose fiction. The book begins with a series of tales...

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