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Covent-Garden Journal - cover

Covent-Garden Journal

Henry Fielding

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

The Covent-Garden Journal (modernised as The Covent Garden Journal) was an English literary periodical published twice a week for most of 1752. It was edited and almost entirely funded by novelist, playwright, and essayist Henry Fielding, under the pseudonym, "Sir Alexander Drawcansir, Knt. Censor of Great Britain". It was Fielding's fourth and final periodical, and one of his last written works.
Available since: 04/11/2021.
Print length: 40 pages.

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