Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (1707-54) was an English writer who wrote the great comic novel. Tom Jones. His other works included the novels Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild and Amelia, plays, political satire and criticism.
Fielding was also a judge who was famous for being a champion of law and social justice. He founded the Bow Street Runners, regarded by many as being London's first police force.
Tom Jones (1963 film) - lusty eating scene
Tom Jones (1963 film)- lusty eating scene
A young Albert Finney as Tom Jones in a celebrated cinematic food orgy with Mrs. Waters (played by Joyce Redman) John Osborne wrote the screen play from Henry Fielding's classic novel. Directed by Tony Richardson.
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The History of Tom Jones, a Founding (by Henry Fielding)
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
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A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squire-though he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, Tom Jones is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
Henry Fielding (article)
Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate.
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