Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was 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.

Works

1728 Love in Several Masques (play)

1730 The Author's Farce

1731 The Tragedy of Tragedies

1731 The Grub-Street Opera

1732 The Modern Husband

1732 The Covent-Garden Tragedy

1733 The Miser

1734 Don Quixote in England

1736 Pasquin

1737 Eurydice

1737 The Historical Register

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.