Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Check out this 1978 movie review of Tom Richardson's Joseph Andrews. Is it a coincidence that a guy named Richardson is making Fielding's movie into a movie? Conspiracy theories abound. (Source.)
Was Lady Booby the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate? TV Tropes thinks so. (Source.)
Want to catch up on the Fielding-Richardson controversy? Harold Childe's chapter in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature tells it all. (Source.)
Maybe Fielding based his book on how great his own sister, Sarah Fielding, was. She wrote some pretty awesome stuff, too. (Source.)