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  • curprev 22:2222:22, 26 November 2021Olaf Simons talk contribs 9,744 bytes +389 Created claim: Online information (P146): https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/Item_talk:Q229686
  • curprev 22:2222:22, 26 November 2021Olaf Simons talk contribs 9,355 bytes −1,654 Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Overall: His father's lavish lifestyle and large family left little inheritance for Fielding, forcing him to write for a living. He began by writing poems and plays. After a rocky start, he gained a reputation as a prolific playwright until June 1737, when the Theatrical Licensing Act effectively ended his career. This led to a period of financial burden, when he was imprisoned briefly for debt and attempted to alleviate his distress by transl...
  • curprev 22:2222:22, 26 November 2021Olaf Simons talk contribs 11,009 bytes −1,682 Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Periodicals etc.: pieces published either anonymously or pseudonymously in the anti-ministerial papers Mist's (later Fog's) Weekly Journal and The Craftsman in 1728 and 1730; The Champion; or, British mercury. under the pseud. By Capt. Hercules Vinegar, of Pall-Mall, 1739-40; 1740-3; published essays anonymously in The Craftsman and in Common Sense (under the pseud. Mum Budget), 1738; History of Our Own Times, a short-lived magazine attributed...
  • curprev 22:2222:22, 26 November 2021Olaf Simons talk contribs 12,691 bytes −889 Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Coteries: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; George Lyttelton; William Pitt; Sir Charles Hanbury Williams; James Ralph; Thomas Cooke
  • curprev 22:2222:22, 26 November 2021Olaf Simons talk contribs 13,580 bytes −1,250 Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Patrons: sought the patronage of Sir Robert Walpole for a time (in 1729–30 he wrote an unfinished burlesque of Pope's Dunciad satirizing the minister's enemies); oddly, appears to have been a benefactor of sorts from 1740-2, paying him to suppress a book and subscribing to his Miscellanies; Lyttelton; James Harris of Salisbury; Ralph Allen of Bath; the duke of Bedford -- his most powerful patron; appointed Fielding high steward of the New fore...
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