Editing Henry Fielding (section)

==Marriages==
Fielding married Charlotte Craddock in 1734 at the [[Church of St Mary, Charlcombe|Church of St Mary]] in [[Charlcombe]], Somerset.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Fielding (I1744) |url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I1744&ged=auden-bicknell.ged |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |access-date=27 July 2011}}</ref> She died in 1744, and he later modelled the heroines of ''Tom Jones'' and of ''Amelia'' on her. They had five children; their only daughter Henrietta died at the age of 23, having already been "in deep decline" when she married a military engineer, [[James Gabriel Montresor]], some months before. Three years after Charlotte's death, Fielding disregarded public opinion by marrying her former maid Mary Daniel, who was pregnant.<ref name="booksandwriters"/> Mary bore five children: three daughters who died young, and two sons, William and Allen.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Martin C. |last=Battestin |year=2000 |title=A Henry Fielding Companion |url=https://archive.org/details/henryfieldingcom00batt |url-access=limited |place=Westport, CT |publisher=Greenwood |pages=[https://archive.org/details/henryfieldingcom00batt/page/n38 10], 15|isbn=9780313297076}}</ref>