Article: Works of Henry Fielding: Life And Background

Fielding, Henry
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Life And Background

Early Life:

Henry Fielding was born in 1707 at Sharpham Park in Somersetshire, and
spent his boyhood on a farm at East Stour in Dorsetshire. His father, Edmund
Fielding, was an army officer who later rose to the rank of General; his
mother, the daughter of Sir Henry Gould, died when Fielding was eleven. For
the next few years he attended Eton, where he accumulated an impressive
knowledge of the classics (his father, meanwhile, having remarried and become
estranged from the Goulds, so that Henry's precise relationship with him is
uncertain). At the age of nineteen, we find Fielding in London, where, for the
next several years, he ...

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