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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Masterman Skinn | AMS
borrows from Richardson
a masquerade scene and her basic epistolary form, and radically revises a borrowing from him when her heroine stabs a would-be rapist with scissors. But her general tone and her enjoyment... |
| Textual Features | Mary Martha Sherwood | Her introduction calls Sarah Fielding a sister of the celebrated Fielding
, and says that she, Sherwood, has retained the main story, the old-fashioned language, and just one of the fairy-tales as a sample of... |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | 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. The... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Seward | 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | E. Arnot Robertson | Again the sexual content was an issue. Devlin finds both reticence and modesty in EAR
, but critics found the book's sexual candour appalling, or called it crude or [r]ather too full blooded, or... |
| Literary responses | Samuel Richardson | This ground-breaking novel provoked wild enthusiasm among general readers, and a number of unauthorised continuations. Henry Fielding
's Shamela and Eliza Haywood
's Anti-Pamela are the most satirical among these. |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The narrator claims not to be TCP
, but a close male friend. A prime suspect is the hack writer Paul Whitehead
, who was one of her lovers. Nevertheless the tone has convinced many... |
| Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson
says that in JamaicaTCP
acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Parker | 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... |
| Textual Features | Louise Page | In the book of the non-existent film, chapters have sub-Henry-Fielding
descriptive titles (In which Sir Roderick survives and Isabella returns to the home from which she has lately fled). In the first chapter... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Montagu | 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). Blunt, Reginald, and Elizabeth Montagu. Mrs Montagu, "Queen of the Blues", Her Letters and Friendships from 1762 to 1800. Constable, 1923, 2 vols. 2: 179 |
Timeline
10 February 1749: Henry Fielding published Tom Jones, his comic...
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10 February 1749
Henry Fielding
published Tom Jones, his comic epic poem in prose, in six volumes containing three books each. It reached a (revised) fourth edition by 11 December.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xlii
19 December 1751: Henry Fielding published his last novel,...
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19 December 1751
Henry Fielding
published his last novel, Amelia.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xliii
10 January 1752: Henry Fielding reported in his Covent Garden...
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10 January 1752
Henry Fielding
reported in his Covent Garden Journal (launched on 4 January) the case of a seventy-year-old woman allegedly raped by a young man with two female accomplices.
Bertelsen, Lance. Henry Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer. Palgrave, 2000.
27
16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...
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16 January-9 April 1752
Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant, Bonnell Thornton
issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57. 44
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.
24 January 1752: Henry Fielding's Covent Garden Journal reported...
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24 January 1752
Henry Fielding
's Covent Garden Journal reported the case of a sixteen-year-old girl decoyed into a brothel and kept there by force; he advocated reform of the prostitution laws which were proving the ruin of...
1 January 1753: According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning,...
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1 January 1753
According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning
, a maidservant, was abducted, after which she was imprisoned for days.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
23 (1752): 107-9
29 January 1753: Henry Fielding published A Proposal for making...
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29 January 1753
Henry Fielding
published A Proposal for making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, which he planned to do by establishing a county workhouse system.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xliii
1774: The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice...
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1774
The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice in Miniature was published in twelve volumes of abridged texts by Sarah
and Henry Fielding
, Richardson
, Smollett
, and Lennox
.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
1792: Charles Cooke began publishing Select British...
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1792
Charles Cooke
began publishing Select British Novels, modelled on the earlier serial collection by James Harrison
.
Shevlin, Elinor. “’It is the intention of the Editor’: Griffith’s, Harrison’s, and Cooke’s collections and the making of the English novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, 21 Apr. 2001.
September 1826: The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing...
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September 1826
The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing Sir Walter Scott
's Lives of the Novelists, omitted all mention of any female writer.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
34 (1826): 349ff, 366-7
28 May 1959: The Mermaid Theatre, Puddle Dock, London,...
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28 May 1959
The Mermaid Theatre
, Puddle Dock, London, was opened by Bernard Miles
, with a performance of Lock Up Your Daughters (adapted from Rape Upon Rape by Henry Fielding
).
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
415
27 September 1968: The tribal love-rock musical Hair, a few...
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27 September 1968
The tribal love-rock musicalHair, a few months into its four-year run on Broadway, opened in London the day after censorship was ended by the Theatres Act.
“1968: Musical Hair opens as censors withdraw”. BBC. On this Day, 27 Sept. 1968.
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
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14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
“Bow Street Court Closes Its Doors”. BBC News.
“Infamous Names in Bow Street’s Past”. The Mail on Sunday.
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