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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2011
    27 October 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139083805
    9781108034548
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139083805
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.28kg, 214 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
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    At the outset of this book, published in the first 'English Men of Letters' series in 1883, the poet and author Austin Dobson (1840–1921) declares his intention to restrict himself to giving a 'purely biographical' account of the life of the lawyer, novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding (1707–54). Fielding is probably best remembered today for his novels Joseph Andrews and The History of Tom Jones (1749), but in his own day he was famous not only for his writings in many different genres but also for his work as an innovatory Justice of the Peace in London. Dobson recounts Fielding's life from his schooldays at Eton to the production of his first play, and his subsequent careers as a writer, magistrate and controversialist, until his death in Portugal (where he had travelled in the hope that the climate would improve his health) in October 1754.

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