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Fielding, Henry

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  1. An eighteenth-century English author known for his novels, including Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, a parody of a contemporary novel.


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Fielding, Henry, his coarseness, 67, 68; his character and ancestry, 68; his schooling, 69; his dramatic work, 69, 70; his Joseph Andrews, Amelia, and Tom Jones, 71, 72; his marriage, 70, 71; his death, 72.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell

Fielding, Henry; biographical note on, IV, 75; articles by—Tom the hero enters the stage, 75; Partridge sees Garrick at the play, 83; Mr. Adams in a political light, 89.Flaubert,

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge

Fielding, Henry, a favorite edition of, 24; on reading him, 143; an unattractive edition of, 12.

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

Amongst other Templars of the eighteenth century, with whose names the literature of their time is inseparably associated, were Henry Fielding, Henry Brooke, Oliver Goldsmith, and Edmund Burke.

From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

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