大象传媒

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