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There lived in the northern parts of England, a gentlewoman who
undertook the education of young ladies; and this trust she
endeavoured faithfully to discharge, by instructing those committed
to her care in reading, writing, working, and in all proper forms
of behaviour. And though her principal aim was to improve their
minds in all useful knowledge; to render them obedient to their
superiors, and gentle, kind, and affectionate to each other; yet
did she not omit teaching them an exact neatness in their persons
and dress, and a perfect gentility in their whole carriage.
First published in 1749 and reissued here in its 1765 printing,
this novel by Sarah Fielding (1710 68) attempts to encourage young
women to lives of virtue and benevolence through the story of nine
girls living with their governess, Mrs Teachum, in a school in the
north of England. The girls, aged between eleven and fourteen years
old, learn the feminine graces and manners from various lessons and
field trips organised by their teacher, as well as through the
tales they tell each other. Skilled in conveying moral messages in
this educational context, Fielding, whose brother was the novelist
Henry Fielding, had also published anonymously The Adventures of
David Simple (1744). The present work is particularly notable for
being the first novel written in English expressly for children. An
important text in eighteenth-century literature, it will appeal
especially to readers interested in the history of women's
education.
Important discoveries in private and public archives have recently
brought to light many new letters by Henry Fielding (1707-54) and
by his sister, the novelist and classicist Sarah Fielding
(1710-68). Published here for the first time is their entire extant
correspondence, edited with an Introduction and explanatory
annotations - 77 letters from and to Henry Fielding written over
the years 1727 to 1754, and 33 letters from and to Sarah Fielding
written from 1749 to 1767. The collection illuminates Henry
Fielding's activities as author, lawyer, and magistrate; and it is
valuable as well for the light it throws on his character and
personal relationships. Fielding scholars are already acquainted
with the important letters to his cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
to his rival Samuel Richardson, to his friend George Lyttelton, and
to his famous half-brother John Fielding, the latter written on the
sad occasion of his final voyage to Lisbon. In this volume they
will also find Fielding's correspondence with his great patron, the
Duke of Bedford, and his agents - letters relating to Fielding's
stewardship of the New Forest and to his appointments to the
magistracy. The heart of this present collection, however -
Fielding's correspondence with his closest friend, James `Hermes'
Harris - is completely new. Never before published, the Harris
letters comprise the finest extant examples of Fielding's
epistolary correspondence, a kind of familiar writing he practised
reluctantly, but well. The Harris papers are equally valuable for
what they reveal of Sarah Fielding's literary and scholarly
interests and her relationship with her brother. Other letters in
the collection - several also published here for the first time -
will serve to clarify her friendships with Richardson, Garrick, and
Elizabeth Montagu. Included in the Appendix are a half-dozen
letters from members of the family that will be of interest to
biographers of Henry and Sarah.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT108079Anonymous. By Sarah Fielding.London:
printed for A. Millar, 1753. viii, 4],240p.; 12
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