Henry Fielding

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Standard Name: Fielding, Henry

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Literary responses Margaret Calderwood
The editor of MC 's travel account, Alexander Fergusson , did not think much of her novel; he wrote that it scarcely fulfilled expectations.
Calderwood, Margaret. “L’envoi”. Letters and Journals, edited by Alexander Fergusson, David Douglas, pp. 353-78.
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He thought that many of her characters and episodes, though...
Literary responses Mary Julia Young
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3 (1804): 470
The Anti-Jacobin notice was prefaced by...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Some reviewers (who saw the novel as domestic rather than political) were not enthusiastic; the Critical claimed in a lengthy notice to be disappointed in almost every respect with this performance, and deplored the example...
Literary responses Penelope Aubin
Popular fiction of PA 's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding 's Jonathan Wild.
McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Jonathan Wild</span&gt”;. Studies in the Novel, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 211-31.
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Sterne , too, may have had her work in mind in his burlesque story of the...
Literary responses Mary Charlton
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...
Literary responses Margaret Minifie
The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
50 (1780): 168
It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...
Literary responses Susan Smythies
The Critical Review later identified this story as an imitation of Henry Fielding .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
7 (1759): 79
Literary responses Susan Smythies
The Critical Review noted that SS was imitating Richardson in this novel (as she had imitated Fielding in her last). In The Brothers it found all the machinery of a modern novel, without the overall...
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
CL 's The Female Quixote was crucially reviewed by Henry Fielding in his Covent Garden Journal.
Fielding, Henry. The Covent-Garden Journal. Editor Jensen, Gerard Edward, Vol.
2 vols.
, Russell and Russell.
2: 279-82
Literary responses Jane Collier
The book's authorship is generally accepted, although Jayne Elizabeth Lewis has written that JC produced it evidently with some assistance from Fielding .
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissa’s Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of a Young Lady</span&gt”;. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, pp. 45-67.
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Carolyn Woodward has argued on the basis of closely reading Sallys...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
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...
Literary responses Anna Maria Bennett
Mary Russell Mitford read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural...
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...
Literary responses Jane West
The Critical Review was enthusiastic about A Gossip's Story, recommending it as an antidote to the pernicious maxims of most modern sentimental novels. The reviewer said that West's frequent touches of delicate humour came...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothea Du Bois
After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck , Mary Barber

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