Sarah Fielding Quotes


[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!


Citations

Fielding, Sarah, and Jane Collier. The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable. Vol. 1, R. and J. Dodsley, 1754, p. 115.

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  • Born: November 8, 1710
  • Died: April 9, 1768
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

Sarah Fielding was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749), thought to be the first novel in English aimed expressly at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple (1744).