HENRY FIELDING

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding was a British writer playwright and journalist, who founded the English Realistic School, in literature, along with Samuel Richardson. Fielding was famous as a novelist and wrote comic epic poems in prose. He was born in Sharpham Park, and his father was the nephew of Earl of Denbigha, and his mother was also from a prominent family. Fielding studied at the Elton College, and this is from where he learnt ancient Greek, and Roman literature.

Fielding was encouraged by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who was his cousin to start his literary career in London. Two plays were ...