She died 10 years later, and in 1747 he married Mary Daniel, who had been his wife’s maid. He embarked during his first marriage on his career as a novelist, publishing first An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (1741), a spoof on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (also in WLAIT 3: British and Irish Literature and Its Times). Next came The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams (1742). In 1748 Fielding was appointed magistrate for Westminster and Middlesex, in which capacity he established a reputation for justice in the suppression of crime. The following year he published his third novel, Tom Jones, which uses gentle satire to expose the follies, vanities, and vices of virtually every social class in mid-eighteenth century England.
Women’s place in English society. Fielding’s literary career, from his first published plays in 1727 until his death in 1754, coincided with an era when social and economic changes were causing profound upheaval in English life. The gradual emergence of a powerful middle class, which paralleled the first stirrings of centralized factory production, led to an intense scrutiny and reform of many long-accepted standards of morality.
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