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Dickens, Charles, 84 Dodington, George, 62, 98 Don Quixote and 7V>. Jones com- pared, 84, 124-125 Donnellan, Mrs., 108, 109 note Drawcansir, Sir A., 161 Drury Lane Theatre, 10, 30 Dusky Fight rides down the Sky, 35

East Stour, 3, 4, 38, 42-44, 61,

183

Eliot, George, 84 Enquiry into the Increase of

Robbers, 149, 189 Euthalia, To, 13 Examples of the Interposition of

Providence, 164

Fielding, Gen. Edmund (father), 2, 8, 68

Fielding, Edmund (brother), 3

Fielding, Eleanor H. (daughter), 111

Fielding, Henry, biographies of, v-ix ; parentage and ancestry, 1-3; school-days, 4-6; early love - affair, 6-7 ; appearance, 8-9, 184-186 ; studies at Ley- den, 8, 11, 34 ; goes to London, 8 ; career as a play-wright, 10- 37, 45-59; poverty, 24-25; first marriage, 37-43 ; extrava- gance, 42 - 44 ; comparison between his plays and novels useless, 58-59 ; studies for the Bar, 60-61 ; writes for the Champion, 62-71 ; controversy with Cibber, 66-70 ; called to the Bar and relinquishes periodical literature, 71 ; legal practice, 72-73 ; writes Joseph Andrews, 73-88 ; original plan, 76 ; why abandoned, 77 ; characters and incidents in the book, 78-81 ; portraits, 82-84 ; affinities and resemblances, 84 ; makes an enemy of Richardson, 86 ; his literary earnings, 87,

89, 95, 121, 152 ; Pope and Fielding, 92-93 ; Fielding and Garrick, 94-96 ; Journey from this World to the Next, 100-104; Jonathan Wild the Great, 103- 106 ; its text, 104 ; character- istics, 105 ; place in Fielding's works, 106 ; death of his first wife, 107-108 ; description of her, 109-110 ; Fielding returns to journalism, 112-114 ; Field- ing's second marriage, 114-116; appointed magistrate, 116 ; Fielding as magistrate, 118, 145-150, 163-164, 172-174 ; house in Bow Street, 119 ; Tom Jones, 120-144 ; popularity and success, 121, 135-136; com- pared with Joseph Andrews, 121-127 ; and Don Quixote, 124-125 ; perfection of its plot, 125 ; improbabilities and minor negligences, 126 ; dramatis persona, 127 - 132 ; Richard- son's attitude, 137-141; transla- tions, 142 ; illustrated editions, 142 ; dramatisations, 142-144 ; serious illness, 148 ; publica- tion of Amelia, 151-161 ; in- feriority to previous novels, 152; cause thereof, 153-154 ; a one- part piece, 154 ; writes for the Covent - Garden Journal, 161- 163 ; declining health, 168, 170- 171, 172, 174-177; sets out for Lisbon, 175-178 ; his journal of the voyage, 175-187 ; death, 182 ; character, 186-187 ; sum- mary of his literary work, 188- 190 ; compared with Hogarth,

190 ; family and descendants,

191 seq. ; posthumous works, 195-196

Fielding, Dr. John (grandfather),

2 Fielding, Sir John (brother), 146,

170, 193-194 Fielding, Mrs., the first, 38-42,

69, 107-111