t Sharpham Park in Somersetshire to well-situated, upper-class parents. His mother was the grand daughter of Sir Henry gold, Baron of the Exchequer, and his father, Edmund, fought against the forces of Louis XIV under the Duke of Marlborough, who eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant general. Fielding was home school as was Tom Jones in the novel. A clerk-man from the University of Leyden educated him. And he began not as a novelist, but as a playwright. His first play was, Love in Several Masques. It was written and performed in 1728, he was still quite young. During the next ten years he wrote eight more long plays and over fifteen short plays which he called Farces. Arthur Murphy wrote the first biography of Fielding in 1762. For though it must be acknowledged that in the whole collection there are few plays likely to make any considerable figure on the stage hereafter, yet they are worthy of being preserved, being the works of a genius, who in his wildest and most inaccurate productions, yet occasionally displays the talents of a master. In 1737 he began to study law at Middle Court. He was admitted to the bar in 1740. In the remaining fourteen years of his life he published four novels. He also wrote a BI-weekly newspaper called the Covent Garden Journal. In 1748 he was named Justice of the Peace for the Westminster district of London and in 1749 for all of Middlesex County. He was a proponent of social reform. He spent the last five years of his life in and out of courts and parliament. In 1753 he published Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor. In April 1754 he was forced to resign his position as magistrate and move to Portugal. He later died in October of 1754. I believe that the specific theme of this novel to to never give up. That if a person has a dream and eventhough others tell them they can not reach it that they should still reach. If your goal is the top and you just miss th...
