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	Henry Fielding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Fielding (April 22, 2025 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.
		Fielding therefore retired from the theatre and resumed his career in law, becoming a Justice of the peace in 1748 for Middlesex and Westminster.
		It is a satire that follows the model of the famous Tory satirists of the previous generation (Jonathan Swift and John Gay, in particular).
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	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.
		During this period, Fielding's situation was less than enviable: he continued to have financial difficulties, his health began to fail him as a result of his excesses, and his wife was often ill. In 1744 Charlotte died in Bath of a fever.
		The Victorian novel is primarily in the tradition of Fielding, and the twentieth century novel primarily in the tradition of Richardson.
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	MSN Encarta - Henry Fielding
		Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, Somerset, and educated at Eton College and in law at the Leiden University.
		Fielding is highly regarded for his innovations in the development of the modern novel.
		Fielding devised a new structure and theory that laid the foundation for the works of Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the Victorian domestic novelists.
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	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., Dickens and Thackeray).
		Fielding believed, as did most eighteenth century writers and educated readers, that the purpose of art is to create pleasure which is both civilized and civilizing.
		I find it remarkable that Fielding was able to create a marvelously comic novel under terribly distressing circumstances: he was racked by gout; his beloved daughter Charlotte was dying and later did die; his wife was not expected to survive her illness, though she did.
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	Henry Fielding
		Henry Fielding, the eldest of seven children, was born on April 22, 1707, at Sharpham Park, in Somerset, England.
		In the summer of 1725 Henry was to be found in Lyme Regis, ostensibly for a holiday, but more likely to visit his distant cousin Sara Andrews, with an eye on her fortune and to win her as a wife.
		Henry took up the study of law and turned to writing for the newspapers, becoming editor of The Champion in 1739, and graduated as a lawyer in 1740.
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	Henry Fielding - Free Online Library
		Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, Somerset.
		However, Fielding's sharp burlesques satirizing the government gained the attention of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and Fielding's career in theater was ended by Theatrical Licensing Act - directed primarily at him.
		As a reward for his governmental journalism he was made justice of the peace for the City of Westminster in 1748 and for the county of Middlesex in 1749.
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	Fielding, Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Tom and his guardian, Squire Allworthy, Fielding presents his concept of the ideal man, one in whom goodness and charity are combined with common sense.
		Amelia (1751), his last novel, is a somewhat sentimental story about a young wife’s devotion to her feckless husband, in which Fielding exposes numerous social evils of his day.
		Fielding had begun his serious study of law in 1737 and in 1740 was called to the bar.
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	Henry Fielding Biography / Biography of Henry Fielding Main Biography
		The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the 18th century.
		Fielding's novels, in which the author himself tells the story and controls the plot structure, are considered the first accurate portrayal of contemporary manners.
		Henry Fielding was born on April 22, 1707, at Sharpham Park, Somersetshire, the estate of his maternal grandfather.
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	Henry Fielding
		Henry Fielding's mother was Sarah Gould, daughter of Sir Henry Gould, a judge of the king's bench.
		Fielding's own conclusion was, "that he left off writing for the stage, when he ought to have begun" -- which can only mean that he himself regarded his plays as the outcome of imitation rather than experience.
		It was with Young that Fielding undertook what, with exception of "a very small share" in the farce of Miss Lucy in Town (1742), constituted his next work, a translation of the Plutus of Aristophanes, which never seems to have justified any similar experiments.
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	The Twickenham Museum : Henry Fielding
		Fielding had other connections with Twickenham residents: he was a second cousin of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
		Fielding probably came to Twickenham to have somewhere out of the way for his second wife to give birth.
		Fielding, making only a short stay, had probably moved off before the rate could be claimed from him.
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	Fielding
		Fielding’s Joseph Andrews, nevertheless, has not the air of romance which is so pervasive in Don Quixote, but pictures rather the ordinary life of his time, giving faithful portraits of men and women in ordinary life.
		The role which Fielding assigns to his readers, as Wolfang Iser discloses in his perceptive study The Implied Reader, is not confined to a willingness to be persuaded but to undergo a kind of transformation, through an active participation in bringing out the meaning of the novel.
		The comic romance, Fielding tells us in his Preface, differs from the serious one in that its fable and action are ridiculous, its characters are sometimes of inferior rank and manners and its sentiments and diction are ludicrous.
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	Henry Fielding: Morality in Fielding's novels
		Fielding makes it clear that he does not condone Tom's yielding to his temptations, but he does not entirely condemn it because it is so clear that he was a victim.
		The important thing for Fielding is that Tom is basically a good person and Sophia defied her father out of love for Tom, as defying the wishes of parents is not an action of which Fielding would otherwise approve.
		Fielding also makes evident the fact that her 'affections' fluctuate between Squire Booby and Parson Williams according to which is more convenient and advantageous for her at the time.
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	Henry Fielding @ Catharton Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Fielding was born in 1707 into a reasonably wealthy English family with aristocratic relatives.
		Fielding wrote dozens of plays which did well in their day, but as they were extremely topical and filled with politics, it's difficult for a modern audience to appreciate all their allusions and in-jokes.
		Fielding was very interested in politics and justice, and he became a magistrate in 1748.
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	Henry Fielding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fielding formed his own company and was running the Little Theatre, Haymarket, when one of his satirical plays began to upset the government.
		Critics agree that it is one of the greatest comic novels in the English language.
		Throughout his life, Fielding suffered from poor health and by 1752 he could not move without the help of crutches.
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	Henry Fielding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Fielding was born at Wedmore, England on 22 April 1707, the first child of Edmund Fielding and Sarah Gould Fielding.
		Henry had been raised (by his father, ironically enough) to really dislike Catholics, so you can imagine the atmosphere around that house.
		Henry helped break up several large gangs by offering money and immunity to those who turned in their fellow criminals, so of course several of them did turn in their fellow criminals.
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	Henry Fielding
		Henry's maternal grandmother eventually sued for custody of Henry and his siblings, and won.
		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.
		Henry always managed to live just outside his means, though he was never as bad as his father.
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	The Blind Beak of Bow Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sir John Fielding, the younger half-brother of the great English novelist Henry Fielding, was born in 1721.
		Henry Fielding, when not writing novels such as Tom Jones, had become a magistrate.
		Henry had the power to investigate crimes, question suspects, and then either release them or order them held for trial.
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	Henry Fielding: A Memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, on the 22nd of April 1707.
		Edmund Fielding; a marriage which, according to family assertions, was without the consent of her parents and “contrary to their good likeing.” [1] And it was in the old home of the Somersetshire Goulds that the eldest son of this marriage, Henry Fielding, was born.
		Fielding would then be fourteen years old; and the judge's decision six months later that future holidays should be passed with Lady Gould, away from the influence of the second Mrs Fielding, doubtless severed the lad's connection with his dubious stepmother for the next six years.
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	Henry Fielding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Joural of a Voyage to Lisbon - 1755
		Fielding's is, on the whole, a broad, sane, extroverted humor, never malicious, never petty.
		Fielding's delight is life, and life is there above all in the style.
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	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Henry Fielding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Fielding, author of "The Tragedy of Tom Thumb," died October 8, 1754.
		Henry was sent to a Dutch university, since education was cheaper there.
		When Fielding was between twenty two and thirty years old, he labored long hours writing plays, comedies, and farces for a London stage company.
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	UTEL: Henry Fielding Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was born at Sharpham Park in Somerset in 1707.
		It was partly as a reaction to these that Walpole introduced the Stage Licensing Act in 1737, which effectively ended Fielding's career as a dramatist.
		Partly in recognition of his work as a political journalist Fielding was commissioned as a justice of the peace for Westminster and, despite his rapidly degenerating health, he devoted the last years of his life to fighting crime.
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	Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel
		Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, and the Establishment of the Novel
		For both Fielding and Austen, Parker argues, anxiety about their own authority as writers is associated with anxiety about the state of social authority in England.
		To demonstrate that "Austen reworks Fielding's themes from a female perspective, inscribing women in a tradition of the novel as she explores their societal influence and options," Parker compares Fielding's three novels, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, and Amelia, to Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park, respectively.
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	Reference.com/Web Directory/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/F/Fielding,_Henry
		Henry "Feilding" Fielding - An off-the-wall Incompetech British Authors entry for Henry Fielding.
		Henry Fielding - Brief biography of Fielding with list of selected works.
		Henry Fielding: Morality in Fielding's Novels - An essay exploring morality in Fielding's novels Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Amelia, and Shamela.
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	SIR JOHN FIELDING HIS LIFE AND TIMES
		In response to these problems and as part of a plan to restore law and order to a crime-ridden London, Henry Fielding was made first a justice of the peace and later a magistrate.
		Along with this came another innovation by the Fieldings, the circulation of a police gazette.These posters contained descriptions of known criminals throughout all of Britain, Scotland, and Ireland.
		Henry Fielding died in 1754, at which time John (who had been his assistant for 3-4 years), was appointed as magistrate.
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	Fielding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If Fielding married in 1735 (though, as already pointed out, he may have married earlier, and retired to the country upon the failure of the Universal Gallant), he is certainly inaccurately described as “not having been long a writer for the stage,” since writing for the stage had been his chief occupation for seven years.
		This continued raillery of the Cibbers is, as Fielding himself seems to have felt, a “Jest a little overacted;” but there is one scene in the piece of undeniable freshness and humour, to wit, that in which Cock, the famous salesman of the Piazzas—the George Robins of his day—is brought on the stage as Mr.
		Fielding was now in his thirty-first year, with a wife and probably a daughter depending on him for support.
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	Henry Fielding (1707-1754) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LC Call No.: LAW Notes: The Treatise on the office of constable was completed from papers left by Henry Fielding.
		Author: Levine, George R. Title: Henry Fielding and the dry mock; a study of the techniques of irony in his early works, by George R. Levine.
		Author: Zirker, Malvin R. Title: Fielding's social pamphlets; a study of An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers and a proposal for making an effectual provision for the poor, by Malvin R. Zirker, Jr.
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	Henry Fielding -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		English police magistrate and the younger half brother of novelist Henry Fielding, noted for his efforts toward the suppression of professional crime and the establishment of reforms in London's administration of criminal justice.
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		Henry Wriothesley, to whom Shakespeare dedicated two poems, was one of the writer's first patrons.
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