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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding was a british novelist,writer and
playwright .He born in Aril 22 of 1707 and died on October 8 of 1754. -
Henry Fielding's childhood
Henry's childhood after his mother's death was not easy.In 1719. His grandmother had sent him to study at Eton College, where he remained a boarder until 1724. There he received a classical education that introduced him to the great writers and thinkers of Greco-Latin literature that he would come to admire so much.After leaving Eton in 1724, he travelled around the country, writing and translating the Latin classics. In 1727 he settled in London, where he began to write plays and poetry. -
Career as a playwright.
As mentioned above, Henry Fielding was born on April 22, 1707 in the United Kingdom.On his return to London in the summer of 1729, he tried to perform some other plays he had written on his travels He continued to write plays, and managed to carve out some renown; in this period he wrote some 25 plays, of which two, The Author's Farce , and The Tragedy of Tragedies.Some of Fielding's most celebrated plays are Don Quixote in England (1734). -
Career as a writer
In 1740, two years earlier than usual, Fielding completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar, and was able to practise law.However, it appears that the income from the exercise of the right was not sufficient.he had to devote himself to literature. Thus, this year, 1740, marked a turning point in his career, when he began to write fiction: from 1740 until his death in 1754, Fielding alternated between law and literature, in which he achieved unprecedented success. -
Career as a novelist
His career as a novelist began in 1741, when his first and very successful novel, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, was published.The following year, 1742, he published another work along the same lines, this time about Pamela's brother Joseph Andrews, following Cervantes' model. -
End of his days
The following year, in the hope of improving his health, his doctors advised him to travel to warmer latitudes and a milder climate, and Fielding set sail with his family for Lisbon. When he arrived in Lisbon he was deeply disappointed (he called Lisbon the most horrible city in the world).He settled in the district of Junqueira, and despite an apparent improvement, he died two months after his arrival, on 8 October 1754, at the age of 47, apparently ill with dysentery.