Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press, 1993.
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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Jane Collier | JC
wrote to Samuel Richardson
to explain why he ought not to make a change he wished to in Sarah Fielding
's The Governess. |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
edited a two-part anthology of fiction for children, A Storehouse of Stories; it features work by Sarah Fielding
(unascribed), both Kilner
sisters (all ascribed to Dorothy
), and (probably) Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
. Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols. 1: v-vii |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the novel Murder Most Royal, JP
viewed Henry VIII
's serial marriages through the eyes of two of his wives (both executed at his command), Anne Boleyn
and Catherine (sometimes Katherine) Howard
... |
| Textual Production | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The narrator claims not to be TCP
, but a close male friend. A prime suspect is the hack writer Paul Whitehead
, who was one of her lovers. Nevertheless the tone has convinced many... |
| Textual Production | Edith Somerville | They wrote and re-wrote by turns, and maintained (like Sarah Fielding
and Jane Collier
a century earlier in The Cry) that it was impossible to separate the woven texture of their finished writing into... |
| Textual Production | Phebe Gibbes | It was advertised in this month and re-advertised several years after its first appearance. The full title is Modern Seduction, or Innocence Betrayed: Consisting of Several Histories of the Principal Magdalens, Received into that Charity... |
| Textual Production | Jane Collier | The second of these criticisms was a letter in answer to Edward Cave
, who had published in the Gentleman's Magazine the argument of a Swiss professor, Albrecht von Haller
, that Clarissa was wrong... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | She had written most of it by November 1751. With Johnson
as mediator, she consulted Richardson
about revisions, denouement, optimum length (she reduced her plan from three volumes to two), and about her choice of... |
| Textual Production | Jane Collier | The case for JC
's part-authorship with Sarah Fielding
in The Cry (finished by 19 November 1753, published on 2 March 1754) Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press, 1993. xx, 129n2 |
| Textual Production | Jane Collier | This extraordinary book is discussed in Orlando under Sarah Fielding
, though without prejudice to the belief that Collier's part in it is crucial. |
| Textual Production | Jane Collier | This single-page allegory in JC
's commonplace-book figures her literary collaboration with Sarah Fielding
as a shared project in dress-making. Collier, Jane et al. Common Place Book. 1748–1755. 78 Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, 5 Mar. 2004, pp. 13-14. 13 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Hamilton | This was published at Bath and London. EH
did serious historical research for this book, reading all the Roman history she could find in English and even commissioning translations. There was already women's work... |
| 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. 165 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... |
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