Grossman, Joyce. “Social Protest and the Mid-Century Novel: Mary Collyers The History of Betty BarnesEighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 165-84. 165
Sarah Fielding
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Standard Name: Fielding, Sarah
Birth Name: Sarah Fielding
Pseudonym: A Lady
Pseudonym: The Author of David Simple
SF
, best known as a mid-eighteenth-century novelist, tried a range of other genres as well: history, criticism, a play, a translation, and a landmark children's book which is both a work of pedagogy and commonly billed as the first school story for girls. Her reputation is gradually emerging from the shadow of her brother Henry
's and enabling recognition of her status as a woman of letters, and her pivotal position in the history of the novel.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Jane Collier | Margaret Collier
suggests that JC
wrote an unfinished play. In her sister's commonplace-book, she remarks on a play featuring a character who is always reading other people's thoughts (I know you think me unreasonable... |
| Textual Production | Mary Collyer | An anonymous novel appeared entitled The History of Betty Barnes: it has sometimes been attributed to Sarah Fielding
, but is actually by MC
, as literary historian Joyce Grossman
has shown. Grossman, Joyce. “Social Protest and the Mid-Century Novel: Mary Collyers The History of Betty BarnesEighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol. 1 , 2001, pp. 165-84. |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scott | In November 1759 appeared (bearing the date 1760) an anonymous work of fiction purporting to be socially conscious fact, The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House. SS
was almost certainly implicated... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident. It was a long... |
| Textual Production | Gillian Clarke | GC
published Prior Park: A Compleat Landscape, about the Palladian mansion outside Bath built by Ralph Allen
, the patron of Sarah Fielding
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| Textual Features | Mary Jones | MJ
's letters cover the period from 1732 to 1748, from the writer's mid twenties till she was just over forty. Like her poems themselves they are full of the business of poetry and authorship... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | In addition to Catharine Cappe
's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
, the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as... |
| Textual Features | Jane Collier | It vividly reflects the liveliness and originality of JC
's mind, her interest in books (from the classics and the Bible to very recent publications), education, women's issues, family life, and in moral interpretation of... |
| Textual Features | Mary Latter | The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML
may have been one among... |
| Textual Features | Jane Collier | The commonplace-book throws light on Collier's other extant writings as well. A casual mention of what Sally calls the Turba proves definitively that at least one neologism in The Cry stemmed not from her but... |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Lennox | The novel's opening is an early example of a technique which was to remain popular with authors for generations: About the middle of July 17 — . . . , where the precise day and... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Murray | The preface to this volume dwells on preserving female purity and delicacy, on good education, and on the potentially harmful effect of novels. The author says she aims not only at giving some small assistance... |
| Textual Features | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | The Sylph of the title is the secret, unidentified adviser of the heroine, Julia, Lady Stanley (who before her marriage was a naive country girl), during her not always successful struggles to live morally amid... |
| Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
| Reception | Eliza Haywood | EH
's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally... |
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