Bath and the Care of a 'Poor' Woman

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This paper examines a case of the care of an aging literary woman in Bath, a flourishing spa town. It was a resort town where pleasure and pain, life and death, men and women, the old and the young, met each other. Though she was a daughter of a lieutenant with wealthy relatives, she was left impoverished and unmarried. She had lost her siblings and close friends before settling in Bath in her mid-forties. This lonesome woman with her limited income moved from London to Bath and sought care there through personal connections she had cultivated through her literary pursuit. Her name is Sarah Fielding (1710-68), a sister of the novelist Henry Fielding, and she was a writer on her own. She was born at East Stour, Dorset, spent her childhood in Salisbury, lived in London, and settled in Bath. Her own work shows a writer's satirical gaze upon frivolous life in Bath; the letters left by her later-life chief benefactor, Elizabeth Montagu, set forth what Bath offered to Fielding in her declining years.
静岡大学の論文
2004-07-31