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3 unusual facts about Sarah Fielding


Angela Brazil

The Governess, or The Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding, published in 1749, is generally seen as the first boarding school story.

Sarah Fielding

As a biographer, she wrote The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia in 1757, a history, written from Greek and Roman sources, on the lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, two famous women from Roman times.

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.



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