Henry Fielding

CT 's letters often convey her literary opinions, discussing writing by, for instance, Marie de Sévigné , Richardson , Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson . She also writes of the details of her daily life...

This ambivalently presented woman writer specialises in highflown rhetoric whose literal version is bathetic, foreshadowing a technique of Henry Fielding : the Sun beginning (in the Countess's style) to hasten to the Embraces of his...

The novel's opening is an early example of a technique which was to remain popular with authors for generations: About the middle of July 17 — . . . , where the precise day and...

David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson , which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen...

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

Evelina opens with an ode to Charles Burney (unnamed) as Author of my Being, which sounds like an apology for having written. The preface acknowledges the formative influence of Richardson (as well as Henry Fielding

This is not a well-constructed plot, since it is low in suspense, surprise, or even action. The play progresses like a series of disconnected sketches. The mistaken identity, parental opposition, and lack of money hampering...

The novel opens self-consciously, desiring the reader not to be a severe critic and explaining that the characters first introduced, William Hoskins and his wife Jenny, are worthy, honest people without pedigree or honours.

AMM 's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding and Richardson (to...

This is a novel of courtship among upper-class characters: its title-page invokes the genre of Restoration comedy by quoting Vanbrugh —a different quotation from the one from him SG had used in 1810. But it...

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...

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.

It has been until recently a given of literary history that William Beckford had his half-sister in his sights in his two burlesques on women's novel-writing. The title-page of the first quotes Pope , thus...

In England this work did not succeed in catching the success of Pamela: its copyright failed to sell in 1754 and fetched only a nominal half-guinea the next year. But in Europe it was...

Popular in its day and highly regarded since, this novel sold out and went to a second edition in seven weeks. It was reprinted in London and Dublin, translated into French, German, Dutch, and...