Sarah Fielding

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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 – 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’s Sister”. Sarah Fielding was a best-selling novelist. She was also the younger sister of Henry Fielding, credited as being one of the ‘fathers’ 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