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New material alone could justify any attempt to supplement the Fielding of Mr Austin Dobson. Such material has now come to light, and together with reliable facts collected by previous biographers, forms the subject matter of the present volume. As these pages are concerned with Fielding the man, and not only with Fielding the most original if not the greatest of English novelists, literary ...
The author of the first great novel in English was Henry Fielding. He was also a playwright, a newspaperman, and a judge who helped found a famous police force. Henry Fielding, the eldest of seven children, was born on April 22, 1707, at Sharpham Park, in Somerset, England. He was the son of a general, Edmund Fielding, in a family that included ...
Henry Fielding (Sharpham Park, cerca de Glastonbury, Somerset; 22 de abril de 1707- Lisboa, Portugal; 8 de octubre de 1754) fue un novelista y dramaturgo británico, conocido por sus escritos satíricos y humorísticos. Está considerado como el creador de la tradición novelística inglesa junto con su contemporáneo Samuel Richardson.
Following a family tradition, Henry Fielding’s father, Edmund, became a military officer, serving under the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim and rising eventually to the rank of lieutenant general.
His biography of Edmund Curll, Edmund Curll, Bookseller,co-written with Pat Rogers, will appear in 2007. ... 1718 April, death of HF’s mother, Sarah Gould Fielding. Within a year HF’s father Edmund Fielding remarries and an acrimo-nious battle with Lady Gould, the children’s maternal grand-mother, for the custody of the children begins
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His 1749 comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre. Along with Samuel Richardson, Fielding is seen as the founder of the traditional English novel.He also played an important role in the history of law enforcement in ...
Henry Fielding was born on 22 April 1707 and this Companion thus appears in his tercentenary year. ... In 1707, at the age of twenty-seven, Edmund was a Lieutenant Colonel in Queen Anne’s army, and had served with distinction in the wars against France, including the Duke of Marlborough’s great victory at Blenheim (1704).
