Jong draws most frankly on Tom Jones (1749). Fanny picks "Jones" when she needs a surname and is, like Fielding's hero, a foundling of uncertain parentage who leaves a country home for startling adventures on the road to London and victimization as a wideeyed innocent in the big city. Defoe's Moll Flanders (1722) also exercises some influence on.....
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