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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
In Henry Fieldingās 1749 picaresque novel Tom Jones, the protagonist, Tom Jones, falls in love with his beautiful and virtuous neighbor, Sophia Western.12
Although the two face numerous obstacles throughout the narrative, Tom eventually wins her hand and they marry. Fielding based the character of Sophia on his own wife, Charlotte Cradock, intending the character to represent her as a high-spirited and generous-minded young woman.123