Henry Fielding

Though the authors declare on their opening page that the modern need is to supplement the exhaustive Baedeker with a selective guidebook (something designed to tell travellers what they cannot afford to miss), they actually...

This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...

AS 's correspondence often deals with literary matters as well as with social matters and personalities. She writes with astonishing freedom to Hester Piozzi about the latter's travel book Observations and Reflections: not only...

When Richardson offered her a list of examples of filial disobedience, she replied that no doubt an equally heinous list could be produced of parental oppression. With Carter she mulled over religious and literary questions...

Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what...

EM seems to have influenced this work as a whole, in persuading Lyttelton to reshape it into dialogue from the epistolary form (letters from the dead to the living). In the dialogues she...

In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen , Maria Edgeworth ,...

This first edition appeared while SF 's brother Henry was out of London.

AMB published Juvenile Indiscretions, A Novel, written in the style of Henry Fielding .

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...