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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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Textual Production | Sarah Fielding | |
Publishing | Sarah Fielding | The preface sounds condescending today, yet it offers high literary praise. Henry brushed up his sister's grammar and replaced colloquial words and expressions with more formal ones. He also altered her punctuation, notably removing her... |
Textual Features | Sarah Fielding | 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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | In JF
's Joseph in Jeopardy (whose hero's first name, mentioned in the title, seems to allude both to the Bible and to Henry Fielding
's Joseph Andrews) the hero resists seduction by a... |
Textual Features | Sarah Gardner | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Gilding | Like her, he was a contributor to magazines: a juvenile work by him appeared in the Lady's Magazine in 1775, and he later contributed to the European and other magazines under the name of Fidelio... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Green |
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