Henry Fielding

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...

This satiric, self-reflexive entertainment makes minimal changes to its source, Henry Fielding 's The Tragedy of Tragedies (itself adapted from his Tom Thumb, 1730). There has been controversy over the Opera's music, which...

The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML may have been one among...

Henry Fielding Barnes dubbed her heroine, Evangeline Musset, a female Tom Jones. She adopts a mock eighteenth-century style. The book's full title—Ladies Almanack, showing their Signs and their tides; their Moons and their Changes; the...

When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with...

As the title implies, the primary speaker and instructor is the father of the family, whose name, Mr Allworthy, comes from Henry Fielding . The mother plays supporter to him. Both encourage the children to...

Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone has been added to the...

Behn is presented in this piece as dressed in the loose Robe de Chambre with her neck and Breasts bare; how much Fire in her Eye! The other (male) occupants of Poets' Corner reject...

Her picture of ecclesiastical life features the other-worldly curate, Slender, the satirically-drawn rector, the Rev. Mr Plufty, and their respective daughters. ES gives much of the story in the words of Slender's journal (always unworldly...

BP deliberately situates some of her stories in long traditions. The eponymous hero and heroine in Two Bad Mice are named after Henry Fielding 's tiny prototype Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca in the mock-heroic...

Again Lennox gives her chapters titles which foretell their contents in the FieldingSarah Fielding manner. Of the sister heroines, Harriot is beautiful and spoiled by her mother, a less forgiveable coquette than her namesake in Harriot...

The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II , and...

Readers first encounter the young male protagonist, Henry Dellmore, bearing the nickname of Mumps, and suffering as a pupil at a Dickensian school, under the proprietor Mr Puffardo. Once taken up by benefactors, he...

JC was a lifelong friend of Sarah Fielding and her brother Henry (who famously mentioned in a book inscription her understanding more than Female, mixed with virtues almost more than human), and of...

She met Sarah Fielding at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding , Saunders Welch (the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery . She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with...