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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society

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NRY FIELDING WAS FORCEDTO WRITE STORIES FOR A LIVING When an author invents some unusual way oftelling a story, it frequently happens that anotherauthor will turn it into ridicule by writing whatis called a parody of it. So it happened withRichardsons Pamela, which an abler and farmore gifted man than he, two years after itsappearance, took as the idea of a very differentsort of story, called Joseph Andrews. The writer of this was a born story-teller, aman of great force of character, the son of dis-tinguished parents, and well educated. His namewas Henry Fielding, and he was born in Somer-setshire on April 22, 1707. Being fond of the pleasures of life, and dis-inclined to work or to study too closely, Fieldingleft the University of Leyden, in Holland, andwent to London when he was twenty. But hesoon found that his father was not able to allowhim so much money as he had expected, and hehad to exercise his abilities by writing for thestage. After a while he married a beautiful lady who
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FAMOUS ENGLISH AUTHORS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 73 74 A FEW MORE GREAT STORY-TELLERS had a small fortune; but this he soon contrivedto spend, and at thirty-three he became a bar-rister, though it was chiefly by writing plays thathe made his living. His wife died in 1743, and hethen married a servant, who made him a verygood wife to the end of his days. In that yearhe published a very brilliant satire called Mr.Jonathan Wild the Great. Poor man, he wasnot long to enjoy the success of the great bookshe wrote, nor the advantage of the comfortablesalary he received from a legal appointmentgiven to him in 1749, the year in which appearedhis most celebrated novel, The History of TomJones, one of the great masterpieces of Englishfiction. His third and last novel was Amelia,which appeared in 1751. All his stories are writ-ten with a fine vigorous feeling of life, and over-flow with humor, a quality in which Richardsonwas utterly deficient. In 1754, while on a visit to Lisbon, where hehad go

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