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A Short Biography of Henry Fielding

Author Name:

Henry Fielding

Born As:

Henry Fielding

Other Names:

Henry Fielding

Born:

22 Apr 1707

Died:

8 Oct 1754




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Novelist and dramatist                          
Selected Works:

Love in Several Masques - play - 1728
Rape upon Rape - play - 1730. Adapted by Bernard Miles as Lock Up Your Daughters! in 1959, filmed in 1974
The Temple Beau - novel - 1730
The Author's Farce - play  - 1730
The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb - play - 1731
Grub-Street Opera - play - 1731
The Modern Husband - play - 1732
Pasquin - play - 1736
The Historical Register for the Year 1736 - play - 1737
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews - novel - 1741
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams - novel - 1742
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great - novel - 1743
Miscellanies - collection of works - 1743, contained the poem Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, Modernized in Burlesque Verse

The Female Husband or the Surprising History of Mrs Mary alias Mr George Hamilton, who was convicted of having married a young woman of Wells and lived with her as her husband, taken from her own mouth since her confinement - pamphlet, fictionalized report, 1746
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - novel - 1749
A Journey from this World to the Next - 1749
Amelia - novel - 1751
The Covent Garden Journal - 1752
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon - travel narrative - 1755
Tom Thumb N.D.