Biographie de Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding was born in Somerset in 1707, educated at Eton, and began his literary life as a playwright. Numerous of his stage satires and comedies were performed in the 1720s and 1730s, and Fielding was also a theatre manager before reading for the bar. His principal works of fiction were Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749). Hoping for an improvement in his health, he sailed to Portugal in 1754, and died in Lisbon in October that year.