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Biography

Name: Sarah Fielding
Birth Date: November 8, 1710
Death Date: April 9, 1768
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

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Biography of Sarah Fielding
5,652 words, approx. 19 pages
Sarah Fielding's novels have been described as precursors of various late-eighteenth-century literary forms: her interest in psychology and the problem of evil seems anticipatory of Gothic fiction, while the apologue David Simple (1744) has much in...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Sarah Fielding Information
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Sarah Fielding (November 8, 1710 – 1768) was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was the author of The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), which was the first novel in English written especially for children...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Christopher D. Johnson
7,960 words, approx. 27 pages
Below, Johnson discusses how Fielding blends fiction and biography to create a unique narrative form in The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia which she uses to examine women's psychological complexity while exposing the corrupting power of human institutions.
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Critical Essay by Deborah Downs-Miers
7,488 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Downs-Miers examines the literary strategies and conventions Fielding used to create texts that would appeal to a middle-class market, even though her narratives included unconventional explorations of the female psyche and challenges to prevailing eighteenth-century views of womanhood.
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Critical Essay by Carolyn Woodward
7,476 words, approx. 25 pages
In the excerpt below, Woodward argues that Fielding's David Simple is a critique of the feminine virtues prescribed by capitalist-patriarchal society, and suggests that domestic ideology confined and stultified Fielding herself.
 


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