Battestin, Martin C., and Ruth E. Battestin, Henry Fielding: A Life, Routledge, 1990.

This book is considered the definitive biography of Fielding.

Dudden, Homes, Henry Fielding: His Life, Work, and Times, Oxford University Press, 1952.

A comprehensive two-volume work, this book examines Fielding's writing in the contexts of his society and his personal life.

Waller, Maureen, 1700: Scenes from London Life, Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2000.

This book presents a huge amount of detail about daily life (and death) in eighteenth-century London, focusing on where people lived and worked, how they behaved, what they wore and ate, and how they suffered from illness and injury. The book is made up of vignettes drawn from the author's research and by excerpts from contemporary diarists, novelists, and commentators.

Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, University of California Press, 1957.

This volume looks at the early development...