Born on this day – Sarah Fielding:

Writer

November 8, 1710 – April 9, 1768

Credits:

The Adventures of David Simple (1744); Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple (1747); The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749); Remarks on Clarissa (1749); David Simple: Volume the Last (1753); The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754); The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1757); The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759); The History of Ophelia (1761); Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Socrates Before His Judges (1762).