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Sarah Fielding

Lucy Powell asks so few of us know the achievements of novelist Sarah Fielding. Was she doomed to be consigned to the annals of history by her illustrious brother Henry?

Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers in the arts and science, whose own success was overlooked 鈥 either by their own epoch, or by the annals of history ever since. Virginia Woolf famously reflected on the neglect of brilliant women with her fiction of "Shakespeare鈥檚 Sister鈥.

Sarah Fielding was a best-selling novelist. She was also the younger sister of Henry Fielding, credited as being one of the 鈥榝athers鈥 of the novel. Sarah was also a skilled literary critic and wrote the first novel in English aimed at teenagers. So why has history forgotten her achievements? Lucy investigates.

Produced by Debbie Kilbride
A Tempo & Talker production

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14 minutes

Last on

Tue 7 Mar 2023 22:45

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  • Tue 9 Mar 2021 22:45
  • Tue 7 Mar 2023 22:45

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