Sarah Fielding
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, 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
's and enabling recognition of her status as a woman of letters, and her pivotal position in the history of the novel.
- BirthName: Sarah Fielding
- Pseudonyms: A Lady; The Author of David SimpleThis appellation became virtually a professional signature: both a self-identification and an authority claim.