Fielding, Henry
Died: 1754 AD, at 47 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Dramatist, Novelists, Satirists
1707 - Fielding was born in Somerset, England on the 22nd of April.
1727 - Fielding was educated at Eton College. He was involved in a romatic affair with a young woman which brought him trouble with the authorities and went to London where he started his career as a writer.
1728 - Fielding went to study at Leiden.
1730 - Upon his return to England, Fielding began writing for the theatre.
1737 - The Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737 is said to be a direct result of his activities, The Vision of the Golden Rump, is the particular play that triggered the Licensing Act.
1741 - Fielding's novel An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews or Shamela which was an anonymous parody of Samuel Richardson's melodramatic novel, Pamela was his first major success in writing.
1744 - Fielding's first wife, Charlotte died.
1747 - Fielding married her former maid, Mary. Despite the controversy regarding his second marriage, became London's Chief Magistrate and his literary career went from strength to strength.
1748 - Fielding retired from writing for the theatre and resumed his career in law, becoming a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster. He never stopped writing poltical satires and satires of current arts and letters.
1749 - Fielding greatest work was "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", a meticulously constructed picaresque novel telling the convoluted and hilarious tale of how a foundling came into a fortune.
1753 - Fielding's health deteriorated that he went abroad to find a cure.
1754 - Fielding died in Lisbon on the 8th of October.
Related Books
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Joseph Andrews/Shamela (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding (Paperback - Nov 1, 1999) In Joseph Andrews (1742), Fielding's first novel, footboy Joseph loses his place when he rejects Lady Booby's advances, commencing a comic odyssey of robbery, poverty, and sexual viciousness. Also ...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Fielding (Paperback - Nov 11, 1999) Henry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson's book Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy travesty. Joseph Andrews begins as a...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics) by Henry Fielding (Paperback - Sep 27, 2005) A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) by Henry Fielding (Paperback - Dec 5, 1999) Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading.... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Tom Jones (Norton Critical Editions) by Henry Fielding (Paperback - Jan 7, 1995)  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Anti-Pamela and Shamela by Eliza Haywood and Henry Fielding (Paperback - Jan 29, 2004) Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding's An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson's... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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