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"Prose Fiction"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Literary Period:
"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Early Modern"
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"Augustan"
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"Fetters"
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Date: 1744, 1753
"Thus my fancied Friends became my Plagues, and my real ones, by their Sufferings, tore up my Heart by the Roots, and frightened me into the bearing the insolent Persecutions of the others--I found my Mind in such Chains as are much worse than any Slavery of the Body."
preview | full record— Fielding, Sarah (1710-1768)