Henry Fielding

Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke 's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni ).

RB 's satire here embraces the publishing industry and its pandering to readers' tastes. Emma's cousin Lesbia is apparently representative of a particular type of circulating-library reader; much to Emma's mortification, she likes Miching Mallecho...

Ormond, a young man seeking a role-model, turns at first to Fielding 's Tom Jones, but later and more laudably to Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison.

This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid 's description of chaos. SG slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...

She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George . This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...

The Cry concerns itself with burning issues for women, particularly those of intellectual conformity and of vulnerability to slander. Its authors show off their huge reading both ancient and modern, and coin new words with...

She points out that for all Brunton's highly moralistic intentions, the reason that her Laura needs self-control is that her feelings are passionate, and also that Laura is attracted to heroes created by women...

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...

Each volume has an introductory chapter, addressing the reader in the manner of, and with some images borrowed from, Henry Fielding or Laurence Sterne (the latter, indeed, is mentioned by name). MM hopes her reader...

The story opens with Frederic Duvalvin rushing to the aid of an aged peasant and his mule (though he ruins his clothes in doing so), while his cousin Lorenzo di Rozezzi refuses to help. (These...

The Critical Review (besides alleging indebtedness to Henry Fielding ) judged that both characters and story were well done, but that the ending was wildly improbable. The Anti-Jacobin notice was prefaced by...

Popular fiction of PA 's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding 's Jonathan Wild.Sterne , too, may have had her work in mind in his burlesque story of the...

The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it...

In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of...

CL 's The Female Quixote was crucially reviewed by Henry Fielding in his Covent Garden Journal.