Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding use Abigail in this generic sense, as does Charlotte Brontë.

Henry Fielding, Colley Cibber, Arne, Dibdin, Arnold, Shield, Jackson of Exeter, Hook and many others produced ballad operas that enjoyed great popularity.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

In 1749 Henry Fielding began organizing a force of quasi-professional constables known as the Bow Street Runners.

* Henry Fielding, English novelist

* 1749: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

* April 22 – Henry Fielding, British novelist and dramatist ( d. 1754 )

* Henry Fielding publishes Joseph Andrews.

* October 8 – Henry Fielding, English novelist ( b. 1707 )

* Henry Fielding organizes the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners in London ( 8 men at first ).

* Amelia ( novel ), a 1751 sentimental novel by Henry Fielding

Writers as diverse as Henry Fielding to Naguib Mahfouz have alluded to the collection by name in their own works.

Walpole's other enemies included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Dr Samuel Johnson.

It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer ( died 1607 ) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), and the cleric William Gould.

Sarah Fielding, the 18th-century author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding, lived in the town.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

In the London literary world, he was a rival of Henry Fielding, and the two responded to each other's literary styles in their own novels.

One such advocate of the happy ending was Henry Fielding, who had previously written Joseph Andrews to mock Richardson's Pamela.

It, and Le Paysan parvenu, have some connection to the work of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding.

His three most successful works were Le sorcier ( 1764 ), Tom Jones ( after Henry Fielding, 1765 ), and Ernelinde ( 1767 ).

The pink-fronted Rose House facing the area's pond dates to the 17th century, while Milbourne House facing The Green, the area's oldest, parts of which date to the 16th century, once belonged to Henry Fielding.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

An Alabamian wrote: `` Col. Henry is ( an ignoramus ) fit for nothing higher than the cultivation of corn ''.

" It is only a question of cards and time ", wrote Henry Babbage in 1888, "... and there is no reason why ( twenty thousand ) cards should not be used if necessary, in an Analytical Engine for the purposes of the mathematician ".

Frederick Henry Hedge wrote of the group's nature: " There was no club in the strict sense ... only occasional meetings of like-minded men and women ".

In 1905, after Henry Chadwick wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cricket and rounders, Spalding called for a commission to find out the real source of baseball.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

* Henry Jones ( writer ) who wrote under the pseudonym " Cavendish "

In 1860, Edward Watson, a friend of Henry David Thoreau wrote a poem called " The Cranberry Tart.

Moore met Henry Kuttner, also a science fiction writer, in 1936 when he wrote her a fan letter ( mistakenly thinking that " C. L. Moore " was a man ), and they married in 1940.

When Henry Treece wrote to Thomas comparing his style to that of Hopkins, Thomas wrote back denying any such influence.

In 1880, Sullivan wrote the cantata The Martyr of Antioch, presented at the Leeds Triennial Music Festival, with a libretto modified by Gilbert from an 1822 epic poem by Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

In an 1803 letter to William Henry Harrison, Jefferson wrote:

In 1974, Young Earth Creationist Henry M. Morris introduced a similar concept in his book Scientific Creationism in which he wrote ; " This issue can actually be attacked quantitatively, using simple principles of mathematical probability.

He even attended the 1994 FIFA World Cup with long time soccer fan Henry Kissinger, although he wrote during the 2006 FIFA World Cup that soccer can be interesting to watch but is still a " boring game.

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

That the Louisiana Purchase was illegal was described pointedly by the historian Henry Adams, who wrote: " The sale of Louisiana to the United States was trebly invalid ; if it were French property, Bonaparte could not constitutionally alienate it without the consent of the Chambers ; if it were Spanish property, he could not alienate it at all ; if Spain had a right of reclamation, his sale was worthless.

By 1857 he was so well-loved that his friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote " The fiftieth birthday of Agassiz " in his honor.

The 19th century brought a particular admiration for Leonardo's genius, causing Henry Fuseli to write in 1801: " Such was the dawn of modern art, when Leonardo da Vinci broke forth with a splendour that distanced former excellence: made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of genius ..." This is echoed by A. E. Rio who wrote in 1861: " He towered above all other artists through the strength and the nobility of his talents.

After Henry had obtained the Pope's seal, Matilda wrote to supporters in Germany only to trust papal messages that came though her.