Baruth, Philip E. “Who Is Charlotte Charke?”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, pp. 9-62.
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| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | 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
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 651 |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | EH
appeared on stage as a member of Henry Fielding
's company at the Little Theatre
in the Haymarket. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | EH
had a theatre benefit night performing in Fielding
's Historical Register for the Year 1736 and the afterpiece Eurydice Hiss'd. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 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... |
| Author summary | Susan Smythies | 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... |
| Author summary | Sarah Fielding | 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... |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | A second edition of SF
's David Simple replaced the first, with revisions and an enthusiastic preface by her brother Henry
. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix |
| Publishing | Eliza Haywood | 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... |
| Publishing | Eliza Haywood | 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... |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | 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... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Hervey | 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... |
| Residence | Sarah Fielding | 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. Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli. xxxix Bree, Linda. Sarah Fielding. Twayne. xi |
| 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. 1: 1 |
| 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 |
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