Discoveries in archives have recently brought to light many letters by Henry Fielding (1707-54) and by his sister, the novelist and classicist, Sarah Fielding (1710-68). This book presents their entire extant correspondence, edited and annotated. The collection illuminates Henry Fielding's activities as author, lawyer, and magistrate, and illustrates his character and personal relationships. The heart of this collection is Henry Fielding's correspondence with his closest friend, James "Hermes" Harris. The Harris papers also reveal Sarah Fielding's literary and scholarly interests and her relationship with her brother. Other letters in the collection will serve to clarify her friendships with Richardson, Garrick, and Elizabeth Montagu. Included in the appendix are letters from other members of the family that should be of interest to biographers of Henry and Sarah Fielding.
Discoveries in archives have recently brought to light many letters by Henry Fielding (1707-54) and by his sister, the novelist and classicist, Sarah Fielding (1710-68). This book presents their entire extant correspondence, edited and annotated. The collection illuminates Henry Fielding's activities as author, lawyer, and magistrate, and illustrates his character and personal relationships. The heart of this collection is Henry Fielding's correspondence with his closest friend, James "Hermes" Harris. The Harris papers also reveal Sarah Fielding's literary and scholarly interests and her relationship with her brother. Other letters in the collection will serve to clarify her friendships with Richardson, Garrick, and Elizabeth Montagu. Included in the appendix are letters from other members of the family that should be of interest to biographers of Henry and Sarah Fielding.
`Battestin and Probyn provide an impeccable textual apparatus that
is both unobtrusive and informative. In short, they have created
the definitive collection to which all future 18th century scholars
will refer
Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1994
'Sarah, whose slightly shaky but carefully formed penstrokes are
illustrated in a photograph, would, I think, be both nervously
delighted and amazed to see her words published alongside her
brother's by Oxford University Press in such a learned and
authoritative edition as Battestin and Probyn have now
offered.'
Susan Staves, Brandeis University, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
7:1
`...we are...indebted to Battestin and Probyn for making a
substantial body of material newly available. As well as dicovering
and transcribing this material. Battestin and Probyn have
intorduced and annotated it in painstaking detail.'
Reviews
`Readers seeking a manual of instruction in modes of address to
creditors and patrons now need look no further...Brother and sister
have here been handsomely treated, with impeccable learning and
care.'
Review of English Studies
`Battestin and Probyn are to be commended for the discreet
scrupulosity of their editorial methods on display in this
collection of letters by a brother and sister who were two of the
most important writers in mid-eighteenth century England'
English Studies
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