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Biographical
British novelist and dramatist. Fielding was born near Glastonbury in Somerset in 1707 and was educated at Eton College. After a romantic episode with a young woman which ended in his getting into trouble with the law, he went to London where his literary career began. In 1728, he travelled to Leiden to study. On his return, he began writing for the theatre, some of his work being savagely critical of the then government under Sir Robert Walpole.
The Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737 was a direct result of his activities, and forced him to retire from the theatre and to embark on a career in law. However, he continued to write and his first major success being a parody of Samuel Richardson's melodramatic novel, Pamela. He followed this up with Joseph Andrews (1742), an original work in a similar vein. On the death of his first wife, Mary, in 1744, Fielding disregarded public opinion by marrying her maid. Despite this, he became a magistrate and his literary career went from strength to strength. However, his health had deteriorated to such an extent that he went abroad in search of a cure. He died in Lisbon in 1754. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Henry Fielding.]
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