Henry Fielding (Q229686)

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 to Fielding and Rev. William Young 1741; The True patriot: and the history of our own times, edited by Fielding 1745-6; The British magazine (Increase of Robbers), 1746; the Jacobite's Journal (under the ironic persona of John Trott-Plaid), 1747-8 -- ridiculed Tory opposition; launched the Covent-Garden Journal, 1752 -- intended to advertise for the Universal Register Office and inform the public of his magisterial activities; made enemies of John Hill and Smollett