Henry Fielding

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Standard Name: Fielding, Henry
Henry Fielding in an etching after a drawing by William Hogarth, in left-facing profile wearing a wig and great-coat, with an oval frame and his name written beneath.

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Literary responses Mary Julia Young
The Critical Review (in January 1804) noted the catchpenny appeal of the title to devotees of the gothic: in these days when ghosts and mysteries are so fashionable. It thought, however, that this novel told...
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, 5 series.
50 (1780): 168
It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...
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, 5 series.
3 (1804): 470
The Anti-Jacobin notice was prefaced by...
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 Jonathan WildStudies in the Novel, Vol.
30
, No. 2, 1 June 1998– 2024, pp. 211-31.
215
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 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 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, 1964.
2: 279-82
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...
Literary responses E. Arnot Robertson
Again the sexual content was an issue. Devlin finds both reticence and modesty in EAR , but critics found the book's sexual candour appalling, or called it crude or [r]ather too full blooded, or...
Literary responses Samuel Richardson
This ground-breaking novel provoked wild enthusiasm among general readers, and a number of unauthorised continuations. Henry Fielding 's Shamela and Eliza Haywood 's Anti-Pamela are the most satirical among these.
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. “Clarissas Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in The History of a Young LadyClarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 45-67.
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Carolyn Woodward has argued on the basis of closely reading Sallys...
Literary responses Elizabeth Hervey
The Critical Review thought the protagonist and his adventures too closely modelled on Henry Fielding 's Tom Jones,
Garside, Peter. “The English Novel in the Romantic Era: Consolidation and Dispersal”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 2: 15 - 103.
1: 678-9
but it praised the sentiments of piety and the descriptions and incidents—which, it...
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 Setting Sarah Fielding
The form is epistolary: not an exchange of letters but a single, retrospective letter in which the now older Ophelia looks back. The heroine, brought up in isolation in Wales by an aunt who has...

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