
Walter E. Allen
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LOCATION: London, United Kingdom
Professor of English Studies, New University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 1968–73. Author of The English Novel.
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Henry Fielding was a novelist and playwright, who, with Samuel Richardson, is considered a founder of the English novel. Among his major novels are Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749). Fielding was born of a family that by tradition traced its descent to a branch of the Habsburgs. The 1st…
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