1. Henry Fielding - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fielding

Henry Fielding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Henry Fielding Pseudonym "Captain Hercules Vinegar", also some works published anonymously Born April 22 Sharpham Somerset England Died October 8 Lisbon Portugal Occupation ... Justice of the peace , novelist, dramatist Nationality English Writing period Genres satire picaresque Literary movement ... Augustan Age Henry Fielding April 22 October 8 ) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners , using his authority as a magistrate. Contents Biography Literary Style In popular culture References ... edit Biography Born into an aristocratic family at Sharpham near Glastonbury in Somerset in , Fielding was educated at Eton College , where he established a lifelong friendship with Pitt the Elder . His younger sister, Sarah , also became a successful writer.

2. Henry Fielding Henry Fielding is regarded as one of the greatest artists among English novelists of the eighteenth century and was instrumental in the emergence of the http://www.ruthnestvold.com/fielding.htm

Henry Fielding Henry Fielding is regarded as one of the greatest artists among English novelists of the eighteenth century and was instrumental in the emergence of the novel as a respected literary form. A debate has long raged regarding the relative merits of the novelistic forms developed almost simultaneously by Fielding and the London printer Samuel Richardson. Very different in upbringing and temperament, their literary innovations in prose fiction were often conceived in response to each other. While hardly the libertine he was long portrayed as being, Fielding certainly believed in enjoying life to the full. As opposed to the middle-class Richardson, Fielding came of a genteel family and enjoyed an excellent education. He was born April 22, 1707, at Sharpham Park in Somerset, and was related to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Earl of Denbigh. In April, 1718, Henry's mother died and his father, Colonel Edmund Fielding, went away to London, leaving the children in the care of his in-laws, the Gould family. A year later Colonel Fielding married an Italian widow and attempted to regain custody of his children from his mother-in-law, Lady Gould. This led to a lengthy law-suit which was finally settled in 1722, granting Lady Gould the custody of her grandchildren and securing their mother's estate for Henry and his sisters. After attending Eton, Fielding courted a young heiress, Miss Sarah Andrew of Lyme Regis, but failed to persuade her to elope with him. In 1727, his family lost much of their money through the dishonesty of a broker, and the young Fielding found himself in need of an income. Drama was the most lucrative genre of the time, and Fielding took advantage of his London connections, particularly Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, to gain an introduction to theater circles there. His first play

3. Literary Encyclopedia Henry Fielding Henry Fielding was born on 22 April 1707 in Glastonbury, Somerset, at Sharpham Park, the country house of his maternal and father, Sir Henry Gould, http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1525

4. Henry Fielding Henry Fielding (17071754) Henry Fielding, the eldest of seven children, was born on April 22, 1707, at Sharpham Park, in Somerset, England. http://www.thedorsetpage.com/people/Henry_Fielding.htm

Henry Fielding , the eldest of seven children, was born on April 22, 1707, at Sharpham Park, in Somerset, England. He was the son of General Edmund Fielding, His mother, Sarah Gould Fielding, was the daughter of a judge. Their marriage had been highly disapproved of by Sarah's parents on the grounds that Edmund was too poor and could not even manage what little money he did have. When Henry was two, his father ‘retired’ to an estate near East Stour in Dorset, where he was unsuccessful as a gentleman farmer and where Sarah Gould Fielding died when Henry was just ten years old. Henry had been raised by his father to dislike Catholics, so it is ironic that when two years later his father remarried a woman to kept an eating-house she was an Italian Henry's father and his maternal grandmother, Lady Gould, battled for custody of the children. His grandmother eventually sued for custody of Henry and his siblings, and won . Edmund eventually died in a debtor's prison, leaving behind an estate valued at five pounds. Apparently his wife's parents were on to something. It should be noted that Edmund spelled his name Feilding in the belief that it was the more aristocratic form.

5. Henry Fielding Henry Fielding influenced the main tradition of the English novel through the eighteenth century (e.g., Smollett) and the nineteenth century (e.g., http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/fielding/index.html

Henry Fielding Page under construction. AN EXPLANATION... I have time enough to create only brief notes for Fielding and Joseph Andrews , unlike the discussion of Defoe. These notes reproduce the introductory lecture I gave in class. GENERAL COMMENTS Henry Fielding influenced the main tradition of the English novel through the eighteenth century (e.g., Smollett) and the nineteenth century (e.g., Dickens and Thackeray). With the tightly structured Tom Jones , in which every detail has a purpose, Fielding contributed a sense of structure to the development of the English novel; some critics have called it one of the best plotted novels in English, despite a lengthy interpolated story, "The Man on the Hill." With the character Tom Jones, he introduced a new kind of fictional hero–a good hearted, well intentioned, generous young man with ordinary human weakness, one who yields to temptation with women and to make errors in judgement. With his theories of the novel, expressed primarily in Joseph Andrews , Fielding attempted to give dignity and status to the new genre of the novel by relating it to the classical epic.

6. Henry Fielding Henry Fielding s mother was Sarah Gould, daughter of Sir Henry Gould, a judge of the king s bench. It is probable that the marriage was not approved by her http://www.nndb.com/people/982/000084730/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Henry Fielding Born: 22-Apr Birthplace: Sharpham Park, Somerset, England Died: 8-Oct Location of death: Lisbon, Portugal Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, British Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist, Playwright Nationality: England Executive summary: Tom Jones English novelist and playwright, born at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, Somerset, on the 22nd of April 1707. His father was Lieutenant Edmund Fielding, third son of John Fielding, who was canon of Salisbury and fifth son of the earl of Desmond. The earl of Desmond belonged to the younger branch of the Denbigh family, who were supposed to be connected with the Habsburgs. To this claim, now discredited by the researches of J. Horace Round, is to be attributed the famous passage in Edward Gibbon 's Autobiography which predicts for Tom Jones David Simple and other works, survived her brother.

7. Henry Fielding --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Henry Fielding novelist and playwright, who, with Samuel Richardson, is considered a founder of the English novel http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9034210/Henry-Fielding

var britAdCategory = "literature"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Early life. Maturity. Last years. Assessment. ... Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Robert Walpole Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. Henry Fielding Page 1 of 5 born April 22, 1707, Sharpham Park, Somerset, Eng. died Oct. 8, 1754, Lisbon Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works novelist and playwright, who, with Samuel Richardson, is considered a founder of the English novel. Among his major novels are Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones Fielding, Henry... (75 of 2562 words) To read the full article, activate your FREE Trial Commonly Asked Questions About Henry Fielding Close Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post.

8. Henry Fielding Henry Fielding. Biography List of Works Full Text Index Library of Congress citations. http://quixote.mse.jhu.edu/fielding.html

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9. Henry Fielding - Wikiquote Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Fielding

Henry Fielding From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. Henry Fielding April 22 October 8 ) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones Contents Sourced Love in Several Masques (1728) Tom Thumb the Great (1730) The Miser (1733) ... edit Sourced I am as sober as a judge. Don Quixote in England , Act III, sc. xiv (1731) Much may be said on both sides. The Covent Garden Tragedy , Act I, sc. vii (1732) The dusky night rides down the sky, And ushers in the morn; The hounds all join in glorious cry, The huntsman winds his horn, And a-hunting we will go. A-Hunting We Will Go , st. 1 (1734) He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. Jonathan Wild , Book III, ch. 7 (1743, rev. 1754) edit Love in Several Masques A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress. Act II, sc. xi

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11. Henry Fielding - Wikipedia Translate this page Henry Fielding (Sharpham, 8 aprile 1707 – Lisbona, 8 ottobre 1754) è stato uno scrittore, drammaturgo e giornalista inglese, noto soprattutto come autore http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fielding

Henry Fielding Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Vai a: Navigazione cerca Henry Fielding Sharpham 8 aprile Lisbona 8 ottobre ) ¨ stato uno scrittore drammaturgo e giornalista inglese , noto soprattutto come autore del Tom Jones ¨ considerato, dopo Daniel Defoe e assieme a Samuel Richardson , uno dei padri fondatori del romanzo realista inglese. Indice Vita e opere Opere Bibliografia Altri progetti ... modifica Vita e opere Nato nei pressi di Glastonbury , nel , figlio di Edmund Fielding e Sarah Gould Fielding, primogenito di sette fratelli fra cui Sarah , anch'essa scrittrice di successo, Henry apparteneva a una famiglia di buona borghesia per nascita, ma di mezzi limitati: il padre infatti era nipote del terzo conte di Denbingham, la madre proveniva da una famiglia di magistrati. Dopo la morte della madre nel il padre si rispos² e il giovane Fielding fu mandato ad Eton ) dove ebbe modo di studiare e apprezzare la letteratura greca e latina Trasferitosi a Londra per studiare diritto, scrisse le sue prima commedie nel , su incoraggiamento della cugina Lady Mary Worthley Montague. Nello stesso anno, per continuare i suoi studi, si rec² all'universit  di Leida , dove ampli² la sua conoscenza delle letterature antiche, ma gi  dal era di nuovo a Londra, dove inizi² una carriera di successo come commediografo, scrivendo, tra il

12. Henry Fielding Henry Fielding(17071754) was playwright, journalist, reforming magistrate, and the inventor of the comic novel in English. Out of Fielding’s practice of http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbenglish/HenryFieldingEncyclopediaArticle/

English Department Papers English Department Website Policies Search English Department ... Notify me of new papers Henry Fielding William Warner Download the Paper (229 K, PDF file) - July 19, 2007 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips : Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing. ABSTRACT: Henry Fielding(1707-1754) was playwright, journalist, reforming magistrate, and the inventor of the comic novel in English. Out of Fielding’s practice of literature and law there emerges the concept of society as a complex, interdependent totality. SUGGESTED CITATION: William Warner, "Henry Fielding " (July 19, 2007). Department of English, UCSB. Paper HenryFieldingEncyclopediaArticle. http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbenglish/HenryFieldingEncyclopediaArticle eScholarship is a service of the California Digital Library

13. FileRoom.org - British Playwright Henry Fielding British playwright Henry fielding henry Fielding Fielding wrote many controversial plays that offended the British nobles and royalty. His play. http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/890

Name: British playwright Henry Fielding Date: Location: Europe Subject Political/Economic/Social Opinion Medium Theatre Artist : Henry Fielding Confronting Bodies : British Prime Minister Walpole Date of Action Specific Location : London, England Description of Artwork : Fielding wrote many controversial plays that offended the British nobles and royalty. His play "The Welsh Opera" or; "The Grub Street Opera," satirically portrayed "a henpecked King George II, a self-importantly religious Queen Caroline and an impotent, lecherous Prince of Wales." Description of Incident : Fielding challenged the limits of free expression under the government of Prime Minister Walpole throughout his career as a playwright. "The Welsh Opera" was successful and Fielding decided to expand the play under the title "The Grub Street Opera." Walpole became aware and Fielding withdrew the play. In 1736 Fielding attacked Walpole in his plays "The Craftsman," "Pasquin," and "Eurydice Hissed." In addition, his play "The Golden Rump" was said to be a viscious attack on the royal family. Walpole began to mobilize the conservative Whigs in Parliament to consider a law limiting theater licenses. Results of Incident : The Theater Act was passed in 1737. It limited the number of theaters in London to merely two. Fielding ceased writing plays, took up the legal profession and wrote the novel "Joseph Andrew."

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15. Henry Fielding Brief biography of fielding with list of selected works. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hfieldin.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Henry Fielding (1707-1754) British writer, playwright and journalist, founder of the English Realistic school in literature with Samuel Richardson. Fielding's career as a dramatist has been shadowed by his career as a novelist. His aim as a novelist was to write comic epic poems in prose - he once described himself as "great, tattered bard." "When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more." (from Tom Thumb the Great Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, Somerset. He was by birth a gentleman, close allied to the aristocracy. His father was a nephew of the 3th Earl of Denbigha, and mother was from a prominent family of lawyers. Fielding grew up on his parents farm at East Stour, Dotset. His mother died when Fielding was eleven, and when his father remarried, Henry was sent to Eton. He studied at Eton College (1719-1724), where he learned to love ancient Greek and Roman literature. Encouraged by his cousin, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Fielding started his career as a writer in London. In 1728 he wrote two plays, of which LOVE IN SEVERAL MASQUES was successfully performed at Drury Lane. In the same year he went to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, enlarging his knowledge of classical literature. After returning to England, he devoted himself to writing for the stage. Fielding also became a manager of the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. In 1730 he had four plays produced, among them TOM THUMB, which is his most famous and popular drama. According to a story, it made Swift laugh for the second time in his life. In 1736 Fielding took over the management of the New Theatre, writing for it among others the satirical comedy PASQUIN. For several years Fielding's life was happy and prosperous.

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CacheBuster('') Printer Friendly over 3,000,000 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... Literature Henry Fielding Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, Somerset. He was by birth a gentleman, closely allied to the aristocracy. Fielding grew up on his parents' farm at East Stour, Dorset. His mother died when Fielding was eleven, and when his father remarried, Henry was sent to Eton. He studied at Eton College (1719-1724), where he learned to love ancient Greek and Roman literature. Encouraged by his cousin, Lady Mary Worley Montague, Fielding started his career as a writer in London. In 1728 he wrote two plays, of which Love in Several Masques was successfully performed at Drury Lane. In the same year he went to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, enlarging his knowledge of classical literature. After returning to England, he devoted himself to writing for the stage. Fielding also became a manager of the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. In 1730 he had four plays produced, among them Tom Thumb , which is his most famous and popular drama. According to a story, it made Swift laugh for the second time in his life. In 1736 Fielding took over the management of the New Theatre, writing for it among others the satirical comedy

17. Henry Fielding Collection At Bartleby.com henry fielding. 1707–54, English novelist and dramatist. Born of a distinguished family, he was educated at Eton and studied law at Leiden. http://www.bartleby.com/people/FieldingH.html

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the website with the self-referential tagline... Henry "Feilding" Fielding Henry Fielding was born at Wedmore, England on 22 April 1707, the first child of Edmund Fielding and Sarah Gould Fielding. Their marriage had been highly disapproved of by Sarah's parents on the grounds that Edmund was too poor and couldn't even manage what little money he did have but Sarah would listen to none of that. They had seven children before Sarah died . When Henry was twelve, his father remarried, an Italian woman who was rumored to be a Catholic who kept an eating-house . Henry had been raised (by his father, ironically enough) to really dislike Catholics, so you can imagine the atmosphere around that house. Henry's maternal grandmother eventually sued for custody of Henry and his siblings, and won. Surrounded by females and one much younger brother, Henry grew up wild and willful, not to mention prone to brawling At 21, Henry went to the continent to attend the University of Leiden in Holland, because it was much cheaper than any of the London schools. Eventually, though, he couldn't even afford Leiden and had to go back to London with all kinds of unpaid debts behind him . London was good to him, though...between the ages of 22 and 30, Henry managed to make quite a good living as a writer of farces and comedies

19. The San Antonio College LitWeb Henry Fielding Page Listing of major works and biographies from San Antonio College LitWeb. http://www.accd.edu/SAC/ENGLIsh/bailey/fielding.htm

The Henry Fielding Page Major Works Several of Fielding's works are available in Penguin editions. Drama The Author's Farce The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb Pasquin, A Dramatic Satire of the Times Novels An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews ( 1741 ). A parody of Richardson's Pamela , which has probably ruined the earlier novel for generations of readers. Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ). Begins as another take-off on Pamela but soon leaves that purpose behind. Memorable characterization of Parson Adams. Joseph Andrews with Shamela and Related Writings is a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Homer Goldberg. Jonathan Wild ( 1743 ). Fielding's satire on 'greatness.' The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling On Line from Renascence Editions. Norton Critical Edition edited by Sheridan Baker. Amelia A Journey from this World to the Next The Covent Garden Journal Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon About Fielding Wilbur L. Cross, The History of Fielding . Three Volumes. Yale, 1918. F. Homes Duddon, Fielding: His Life, Works and Times

20. Fielding, Henry | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books Critical Essays on henry fielding (ed Albert J Rivero) collects a broad swathe of modern scholarship and examines all the genres fielding worked in. http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-67,00.html

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