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What if love rewards patient effort as much as luck?
The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love treats courtship as a skill worth learning—and laughing about. It joins the names of Roman poet Ovid and English novelist and playwright Henry Fielding. Ovid’s Art of Love supplies the tradition: witty advice on finding someone, winning attention, and keeping affection alive.
This playful guide brings poetry and humour to the serious business of wanting to be loved. Fielding is linked with an English-language version of this tradition, where practical tips meet teasing wit. The focus moves from places to meet and ways to approach someone to the care that affection needs once it begins.
What you’ll discover
- Love as a skill Explore the hopeful idea that love asks for effort, not simply luck or fate.
- The art of approaching Discover a courtship tradition that looks to public gatherings, festivals, and entertainments for possible meetings.
- Charm beyond mere appearance Consider why neat dress, clean habits, and pleasant manners matter more than show alone.
- Affection worth tending Look beyond winning attention to the patient work of keeping love alive.
- Advice with a smile Enjoy practical ideas wrapped in teasing humour, where romantic effort leaves room for laughter.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy eighteenth century wit, classical myth retold with a smile, and the social scenes of old London, from pleasure gardens to playhouses.
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- Love is a craft with three lessons
- Look for love where London gathers
- Win her through her maid and your letters
- Charm her with manner, dress and table
- The advice turns to pressure, and shows its age
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El asistente de los amantes; o, Nuevo arte de amar
by Henry Fielding; Ovidio · 1747
A self-appointed schoolmaster of love sends his students to Vauxhall, Ranelagh and the theater to hunt a sweetheart.
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What if courtship were a school subject, taught by a master who drives Love's chariot like a coachman? In The Lovers Assistant, Henry Fielding gives the Roman poet Ovid's Art of Love an English home, with London gardens, theaters and gossip.
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Love is a craft with three lessons
The speaker opens as a schoolmaster who says every skill needs rules, from steering a ship to driving a coach. Love, he claims, is no different. Cupid is a wild boy, and the master means to train him as a tutor trains a fierce young prince.
He names Venus as his muse and says he writes from experience alone. He turns away prudes and writes for good-natured girls. Then he sets out his plan: choose a mistress, win her affection, and keep the love alive.
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What is The Lovers Assistant about?
It is a mock-serious guide to courtship. A schoolmaster of love teaches where to find a mistress, how to win her through her maid, letters, flattery and attention, and how to suit each woman's temper.
Is The Lovers Assistant based on Ovid?
Yes. It follows the plan of Ovid's Art of Love, with its three lessons and its Greek and Roman myths, but it sets them in eighteenth century London, with real places and local jokes.
What London places does the book mention?
Vauxhall, Ranelagh, the Mall, Kensington Gardens, Tower Hill, the law courts, the theaters and the spa at Bath all appear as places where the pupil might meet a sweetheart.
The author
Henry Fielding
1707–1754 · English novelist and playwright
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) was an English novelist and dramatist. He was born in Somerset and lived and worked in London, where he also served as a magistrate. He wrote Jonathan Wild (1743), Tom Jones (1749), and Amelia (1751). He travelled to Portugal in 1754 and died in Lisbon that year.
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