Henry Fielding More than Tom Jones Creator

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Henry Fielding

On April 22, 1707, British literary history was about to change, for Henry Fielding was born in Sharpham Park, Somerset, England. No one could have realized at the time that he would become a novelist, one of the first great long-fiction writers to work in English. No one could have guessed, either, that he would be instrumental in forming Scotland Yard! More