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Amelia of Masovia (pl: Amelia mazowiecka; 1397–98 – after 17 May 1434), was a Polish princess member from the Masovian branch of the House of Piast. She was the fourth daughter of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, and Alexandra, a daughter of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and sister of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland. Life
Duke of Masovia. Duke of Masovia ( Polish: Książę Mazowsza) was a title borne by the sons and descendants of the Polish Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth. [1] In accordance with the last will and testament of Bolesław, upon his death his lands were divided into four to five hereditary provinces distributed among his sons, and a royal province of ...
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Fielding began writing Ameliain the autumn of 1749. He turned to his own life for inspiration, and the main character, Amelia, was possibly modelled on Fielding's first wife, Charlotte, who died in November 1744. Likewise, the hero, Captain Booth, was partly modelled after Fielding himself, as well as on the author's father, General Edmund Fielding...
Amelia is a domestic novel taking place largely in London during 1733. It describes the hardships suffered by a young couple newly married. Against her mother's wishes, Amelia marries Captain William Booth, a dashing young army officer. The couple run away to London. In Book II, William is unjustly imprisoned in Newgate, and is subsequently seduced...
Virgilian
There are strong Virgilian overtones in Amelia. Fielding claimed, in his 28 January The Covent Garden Journal, that there were connections of the work to both Homer and Virgil, but that the "learned Reader will see that the latter was the noble model, which I made use of on this Occasion." The parallels are between more than the plot, and the novel follows a "twelve-book structure" that matches the Aeneid. Even the characters have Virgilian counterparts, with Booth being comparable to Aeneas...
Feminine intelligence
Although the novel deals with marriage and life after marriage, it also gives three "histories": the history of Miss Mathews, Mrs Bennet, and Mrs Atkinson. It is the third story, that of Mrs Atkinson, which demonstrates feminine intellect. According to her story, she received her understanding of the classics from her father. To demonstrate her knowledge, she quotes from the Aeneid, an action that Fielding describes, in Book VI, Chapter 8, as her performing "with so strong an Emphasis, that s...
John Cleland was one of the first reviewers of the novel, and in the December 1751 Monthly Review, claimed the work as "the boldest stroke that has yet been attempted in this species of writing" and that Fielding "takes up his heroine at the very point at which all his predecessors have dropped their capital personages." However, he also stated tha...
Armory, Hugh. "What Murphy Knew: His Interpolations in Fielding's Works (1762), and Fielding's Revision of Amelia", Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America77 (1983): 133–166.Battestin, Martin, and Battestin, Ruthe. Henry Fielding: A Life. London: Routledge, 1993. ISBN 0-415-01438-7Bertelsen, Lance. Henry Fielding at Work: Magistrate, Businessman, Writer. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. ISBN 0-312-23336-1Castro-Santana, A. "“What’s in a Name?”: Barton Booth, Billy Booth and Some Theatrical Roots in Fielding’s Amelia" ANQ, 2021Amelia of Masovia (pl: Amelia mazowiecka; 1397/98 - after 17 May 1434), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast in the Masovian branch. She was the fourth daughter of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia and Alexandra , a daughter of Algirdas , Grand Duke of Lithuania and sister of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland .
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Masovian Voivodeship is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland. It can be found in the east-central part of Poland. It is mostly in the historical land of Masovia. The capital of the Voivodeship is Warsaw. The province was created on January 1, 1999. Kampinos National Park is in the province.
