{"id":5574,"date":"2021-08-08T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2021-08-08T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T17:01:11","slug":"henry-fielding-1707-1754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/henry-fielding-1707-1754\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Fielding  (1707 \u2013 1754)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Henry-Fielding.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Fielding (1707 \u2013 1754)\" width=\"474\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Henry-Fielding.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Henry-Fielding-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Henry-Fielding-98x120.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em><span class=\"last-updated\">Last Updated on August 8, 2021<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#d6d3d3;border-radius:4px;-moz-border-radius:4px;-webkit-border-radius:4px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#f0eded;border-color:#ffffff;color:#oooooo;border-radius:4px;-moz-border-radius:4px;-webkit-border-radius:4px;\">Some of the links on this page are affiliate links. That means that if you click through and take action, the publisher of this website will receive compensation.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Henry Fielding (1707 \u2013 1754) was an English novelist.\u00a0 He&#8217;s most known for his novels <em>Joseph Andrews<\/em> and <em>Tom Jones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Fielding holds a place in the history of law enforcement. He and his half-brother, John, helped to found the Bow Street Runners, known as London&#8217;s first police force.<\/p>\n<p>Fielding&#8217;s younger sister, Sarah, was also a writer.\u00a0 Her novel <em>The Governess, or The Little Female Academy <\/em>was written expressly for children.<\/p>\n<p><b>A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Tom%20Jones\">Tom Jones<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Henry%20Fielding\">Henry Fielding<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Henry Fielding Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Henry%20Fielding&amp;page=1\">Quotes by Henry Fielding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Henry%20Fielding&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\">Books by Henry Fielding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Novels by Henry Fielding<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Shamela \u2013 novella, 1741<\/li>\n<li>The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Adams \u2013 1742<\/li>\n<li>The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great \u2013 1743<\/li>\n<li>The Female Husband or the Surprising History of Mrs Mary alias Mr George Hamilton, who was convicted of having married a young woman of Wells and lived with her as her husband, taken from her own mouth since her confinement \u2013 pamphlet, fictionalized report, 1746<\/li>\n<li>The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling \u2013 1749<\/li>\n<li>A Journey from this World to the Next \u2013 1749<\/li>\n<li>Amelia \u2013 1751<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Fielding (1707 \u2013 1754) was an English novelist.\u00a0 He&#8217;s most known for his novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[801,805,799,800],"class_list":["post-5574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-information","tag-amelia","tag-bio1","tag-henry-fielding","tag-tom-jones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}