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== Life == | == Life == | ||
Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park near Glastonbury, Somerset, the estate of his grandfather [[Sir Henry Gould]], one of the most distinguished lawyers of the time, on 22 April 1707. His father was Edmund Fielding, a successful army officer, his mother Sarah was the daughter of Sir Henry. | Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park near Glastonbury, Somerset, the estate of his grandfather [[Sir Henry Gould]], one of the most distinguished lawyers of the time, on 22 April 1707. His father was Edmund Fielding, a successful army officer, his mother Sarah was the daughter of Sir Henry. | ||
Henry Fielding somehow grew up and wrote the following texts. [Maybe someone could elucidate Fielding's life after 1707?] | |||
== Works == | == Works == | ||
Revision as of 13:49, 4 December 2009
1707-1754. One of the major 18th-century British playwrights and an important novelist.
Life
Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park near Glastonbury, Somerset, the estate of his grandfather Sir Henry Gould, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the time, on 22 April 1707. His father was Edmund Fielding, a successful army officer, his mother Sarah was the daughter of Sir Henry. Henry Fielding somehow grew up and wrote the following texts. [Maybe someone could elucidate Fielding's life after 1707?]
Works
1728 Love in Several Masques (play)
1730 The Author's Farce
1732 The Modern Husband
1732 The Covent-Garden Tragedy
1733 The Miser
1736 Pasquin
1737 Eurydice
1737 Eurydice Hiss'd
1741 Shamela
1742 Joseph Andrews (novel)
1743 Miscellanies
1749 Tom Jones (novel)
1753 A proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor
1755 The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (published posthumously)
Sources
Rawson, Claude (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.
Uglow, Jenny. Henry Fielding. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1995.