Sarah Fielding (November 8, 1710 – 1768) was a British author and sister of Henry Fielding. Jump to: navigation, search November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 3 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. ... 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. ...

She was born in East Stour, Dorset, fourth of seven children, to Edmund and Sarah Gould Fielding, whose father was a judge, Sir Henry Gould. The novelist Henry Fielding was Sarah's older brother. Sarah Gould Fielding, family matron, died in 1718, and Edmund Fielding married Anne Rapha, a Roman Catholic widow who brought six stepbrothers into the family, including the future reformer John Fielding. This article is about East Stour, Dorset. ... Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events July 21 - Treaty of Passarowitz signed November 22 - Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as Blackbeard) is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Sir John Fielding (1721-4 September 1780) was a notable English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century. ...

The new matron of the family, Anne Fielding, was the subject of much anti-Catholic sentiment within the family's elder generation. The maternal grandmother, Lady Gould, took the children and sent them to various schools. While Henry was sent to Eton, Sarah was sent to a private boarding school in Salisbury. In 1721, Lady Gould sued for custody of the children and ownership of the family house. She eventually won, leaving the children unable to see their father for years. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) for boys. ... Salisbury Cathedral by Constable. ... 1721 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

In the 1740's, Sarah Fielding moved to London, sometimes living with her sisters and sometimes with Henry and his family. The women of the family lacked sufficient money to possess dowry, and consequently none married. Even when Lady Gould died in 1733, there was little money for the children. London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ...

Sarah turned to writing to make a living. While she lived with her brother and acted as his housekeeper, she began to write. In 1742, Henry Fielding published Joseph Andrews, and Sarah is often credited with having written the letter from Horatio to Leonora. In 1743, Fielding published his Miscellanies (containing his life of Jonathan Wild), and Sarah may have written its narrative of the life of Anne Boleyn. // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humor and satirical prowess and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. ... Joseph Andrews is a novel by Henry Fielding, first published in 1742. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handels oratorio, Samson. ... Jonathan Wild in the condemned cell at Newgate Prison Jonathan Wild (1683–May 24, 1725) was perhaps the most famous criminal of London — and possibly Great Britain — during the 18th century, both because of his own actions and the uses novelists, playwrights, and political satirists made of them. ... Jump to: navigation, search A portrait of Anne painted some years after her death Anne Boleyn, 1st Marquess of Pembroke (c. ...

In 1744, Sarah published The Adventures of David Simple. This novel was quite successful and gathered praise from contemporaries, including the publisher and novelist Samuel Richardson, who was himself the target of Henry Fielding's satire. Samuel Richardson said that he thought Sarah and Henry were possessed of equal gifts of writing. The novel was sufficiently popular that Sarah wrote Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple as an epistolary furtherance to the novel in 1747. In 1753, she wrote a sequel to David Simple entitled David Simple: Volume the Last. Jump to: navigation, search // Events The third French and Indian War, known as King Georges War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia The First Saudi State founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud Prague occupied by Prussian armies Ongoing events War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Births January 10... Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major eighteenth-century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753). ... An epistolary novel is a book written using a literary technique in which a novel is composed as a series of letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. ... // Events January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain May 14 - First battle of Cape... 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Further, the frontispieces to her novels would always carry the advertisement that they were written by "the author of David Simple." As was the habit, David Simple was published anonymously. It went into a second edition within ten weeks, and the novel was translated into French and German. It was one of the earliest sentimental novels, featuring a wayfaring hero in search of true friendship who triumphs by good nature and moral strength. He finds happiness in marriage and a rural, bucolic life, away from the corruptions of the city. David Simple is an analog, in a sense, to the figure of Heartsfree, in Henry Fielding's Jonathan Wild and Squire Allworthy in his Tom Jones. However, he also shares characteristics with other sentimental figures who find their peace only with escape from corruption and the harmony of a new Utopia. In her Volume the Last, however, Sarah's fiction, like Henry's, is darker and shows less of a faith in the triumph of goodness in the face of a corrosive, immoral world. Utopia, in its most common and general positive meaning, refers to the human efforts to create a better society, a perfect society that does not exist (yet). ...

Fielding also wrote three other novels with original stories. The most significant of these was The Governess, or, Little Female Academy in 1749, which is the first novel in English written especially for children. In addition, she wrote The History of the Countess of Delwyn in 1759, and The History of Ophelia in 1760. Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

As a critic, Sarah Fielding wrote Remarks on Clarissa in 1749, and as a translator she produced Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Socrates Before His Judges in 1762. Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Sarah's sisters died between 1750 and 1751, and Henry died in 1754. Sarah retired from London. She moved to a small house just outside of Bath. The famous philanthropist Ralph Allen and the similarly famous bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu gave her some financial aid. Sarah Scott, sister of Elizabeth Montagu and novelist, invited Sarah Fielding to come live with her in a female utopian community, but Sarah Fielding declined the invitation. She died in 1768, and there is a memorial plaque to her on the west porch of Bath Abbey. Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex... Events Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow March 31 - The future King George III of the United Kingdom succeeds his father as Prince of Wales. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Palladian-style Pulteney Bridge and the weir at Bath. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ralph Allen (1693 - June 29, 1764) was baptised at St Columb Major Cornwall on July 24 1693. ... The Bluestocking society was an informal womens social and educational movement that came into being in England in the mid-eighteenth century in imitation of a similar - though more formal - movement in France. ... Jump to: navigation, search Elizabeth Montagu (1720 - 1800), was an English literary critic. ... Bath Abbey at sunset Bath Abbey is the last in a series of monastic churches built in Bath and is still in active use. ...

Bibliography

• The Adventures of David Simple 1744
• Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple 1747
• The Governess, or The Little Female Academy 1749
• Remarks on Clarissa 1749
• David Simple: Volume the Last 1753
• The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (with Jane Collier) 1754
• The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia 1757
• The History of the Countess of Dellwyn 1759
• The History of Ophelia 1761
• Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Sacrates Before His Judges 1762

External Links

• Chawton House Women's Writing Entry
• Works by Sarah Fielding at Project Gutenberg