Henry Fielding

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Standard Name: Fielding, Henry

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Textual Production Patricia Beer
PB published Driving West: Poems, whose contents balance the urban and rural; its title suggests Donne 's Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, but the name this poem invokes is Henry Fielding , the lawyer on circuit.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
Sherry, Vincent B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 40. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Before she did so in public, LMWM replied in private to Pope's attacks, in responses to and imitations of his Dunciad: mock-epic fantasies in which Pope and his confederates appear somewhat awkwardly as allies...
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
This first edition appeared while SF 's brother Henry was out of London.
Textual Production Anna Maria Bennett
AMB published Juvenile Indiscretions, A Novel, written in the style of Henry Fielding .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Mary Collyer
Marivaux' full title, La vie de Marianne; ou, Les aventures de Madame la Comtesse de*****, suggests a story from actual life. MC wrote most of her version before 1741 (very soon after the French...
Textual Production Teresia Constantia Phillips
The narrator claims not to be TCP , but a close male friend. A prime suspect is the hack writer Paul Whitehead , who was one of her lovers. Nevertheless the tone has convinced many...
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 Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
She also adapted works by Henry Fielding and George Lillo , and a version of the Inkle and Yarico story originated by Richard Steele and versified by Frances, Lady Hertford .
National Union Catalog. Roman and Littlefield.
Textual Production George Eliot
In December 1870 she began writing Miss Brooke, a narrative which became part of Middlemarch as the history of its heroine. Not long after this she thought of combining this story of a daughter...
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 Production Anna Maria Mackenzie
Francis, The Philanthropist is included among Chawton House Library 's Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. The author (not AMM ) says she intends, even though she admires Richardson , to emulate Henry Fielding and Smollett ...
Textual Features Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
The novel opens self-consciously, desiring the reader not to be a severe critic and explaining that the characters first introduced, William Hoskins and his wife Jenny, are worthy, honest people without pedigree or honours.
Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny,. The Pavilion. William Lane, Minerva Press.
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Textual Features Anna Maria Mackenzie
AMM 's opening address To the Readers of Modern Romance says that ancient romance was put paid to by the new source of amusement . . . struck out by Henry Fielding and Richardson (to...
Textual Features Sarah Green
This is a novel of courtship among upper-class characters: its title-page invokes the genre of Restoration comedy by quoting Vanbrugh —a different quotation from the one from him SG had used in 1810. But it...
Textual Features Mary Martha Sherwood
Her introduction calls Sarah Fielding a sister of the celebrated Fielding , and says that she, Sherwood, has retained the main story, the old-fashioned language, and just one of the fairy-tales as a sample of...

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10 February 1749: Henry Fielding published Tom Jones, his comic...

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10 February 1749

Henry Fielding published Tom Jones, his comic epicpoem in prose, in six volumes containing three books each. It reached a (revised) fourth edition by 11 December.

19 December 1751: Henry Fielding published his last novel,...

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19 December 1751

Henry Fielding published his last novel, Amelia.

10 January 1752: Henry Fielding reported in his Covent Garden...

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10 January 1752

Henry Fielding reported in his Covent Garden Journal (launched on 4 January) the case of a seventy-year-old woman allegedly raped by a young man with two female accomplices.

16 January-9 April 1752: Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant,...

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16 January-9 April 1752

Under the name of Madame Roxana Termagant, Bonnell Thornton issued thirteen weekly numbers of a periodical entitled Have at You All; or, The Drury Lane Journal.

24 January 1752: Henry Fielding's Covent Garden Journal reported...

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24 January 1752

Henry Fielding 's Covent Garden Journal reported the case of a sixteen-year-old girl decoyed into a brothel and kept there by force; he advocated reform of the prostitution laws which were proving the ruin of...

1 January 1753: According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning,...

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1 January 1753

According to her own story, Elizabeth Canning , a maidservant, was abducted, after which she was imprisoned for days.

29 January 1753: Henry Fielding published A Proposal for making...

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29 January 1753

Henry Fielding published A Proposal for making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, which he planned to do by establishing a county workhouse system.

1774: The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice...

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1774

The British Novelist: Or, Virtue and Vice in Miniature was published in twelve volumes of abridged texts by Sarah and Henry Fielding , Richardson , Smollett , and Lennox .

1792: Charles Cooke began publishing Select British...

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1792

Charles Cooke began publishing Select British Novels, modelled on the earlier serial collection by James Harrison .

September 1826: The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing...

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September 1826

The conservative Quarterly Review, discussing Sir Walter Scott 's Lives of the Novelists, omitted all mention of any female writer.

28 May 1959: The Mermaid Theatre, Puddle Dock, London,...

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28 May 1959

The Mermaid Theatre , Puddle Dock, London, was opened by Bernard Miles , with a performance of Lock Up Your Daughters (adapted from Rape Upon Rape by Henry Fielding ).

27 September 1968: The tribal love-rock musical Hair, a few...

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27 September 1968

The tribal love-rock musicalHair, a few months into its four-year run on Broadway, opened in London the day after censorship was ended by the Theatres Act.

14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...

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14 July 2006

The Bow Street Magistrates Court , one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.

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