The History of the Countess of Dellwyn

Unlike Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple (1744), The History of the Countess of Dellwyn, her penultimate novel, has only recently begun to receive sustained scholarly attention. In part, this critical neglect has developed in response to the novel's status as what Linda Bree calls a "problem text" that exemplifies "the tension that inevitably arises between moral and theoretical certitudes on the one hand and the ambiguities and ambivalences of experience on the other".^[3]

• Gadaken, Sara. “Managing and Marketing Virtue in Sarah Fielding’s History of the Countess of Dellwyn.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15.1 (2002): 19-34.
• Rumbold, Kate. “Shakespeare’s ‘Propriety’ and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel: Sarah Fielding’s The History of the Countess of Dellwyn.” Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France. Ed. Shaun Regan. Lewisburg: Bucknell, 2013. pp 187–205.

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