Henry Fielding

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...

ES wrote by hand a long letter from Bow Street Police Court to C. P. Scott , editor of the Manchester Guardian and thus her employer, in the light of her probably fast-approaching incarceration.

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...