A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Fielding, (Sarah)
FIELDING (SARAH), Half-Sister to the famous Novellist of that Name, who encouraged her in her literary Pursuits,
Wrote several works, which possessed wit, invention, and originality; amongst others, David Simple; Ophelia. A work on Education; a translation of Xenophon's Memorabilia; the Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, and a dramatic novel called the Cry. Her brother wrote a preface to the first, in which he exalts her power of delineating character, by comparing her to Shakespear, and praises her amiable qualities.