Henry Fielding

EH appeared on stage as a member of Henry Fielding 's company at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket.

CC scored a personal success in Henry Fielding 's daring stage satire The Historical Register for the Year 1736, as the auctioneer Christopher Hen (modelled on the actual Christopher Cock ).

EH had a theatre benefit night performing in Fielding 's Historical Register for the Year 1736 and the afterpiece Eurydice Hiss'd.

LMWM acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage and Henry Fielding , but also Edward Young and Samuel Boyse . Books to which...

SS published three novels during the 1750s, which show her well versed both in the modern novel created by Henry Fielding and Richardson , and in an older tradition of satirical and didactic fiction relying...

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...

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...

A second edition of SF 's David Simple replaced the first, with revisions and an enthusiastic preface by her brother Henry .

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...