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Henry Fielding
English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 22 April 1707, 1707
- Died
- 8 October 1754, 1754
- Place of birth
- Sharpham
- Place of death
- Lisbon
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Henry
- Family name
- Fielding
- Father
- Edmund Fielding
- Mother
- Sarah Gould
- Spouse
- Charlotte Craddock, Mary Daniel
- Sibling
- Sarah Fielding, Edmund Feilding, Anne Feilding, Catherine Feilding, Ursula Feilding, Beatrice Feilding, John Fielding
- Genre
- satire, picaresque novel
- Occupation
- writer, journalist, jurist, judge, novelist, playwright, poet lawyer, magistrate, justice of the peace, short story writer
- Position held
- judge
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- cause of death
- liver cirrhosis
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- educated at
- Eton College, Leiden University
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- list of works
- list of theatrical works by Henry Fielding
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Henry Fielding
- place of burial
- British Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1728
- topic's main category
- Category:Henry Fielding
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Joseph Andrews
- An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
- Amelia
- The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
- The Historical Register for the Year 1736
- The Author's Farce
- The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
- Love in Several Masques
- Rape upon Rape
- The Covent-Garden Tragedy
- The Grub Street Opera
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