Sister to Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) was also respected as a novelist. Her best known works include The Adventures of David Simple (1744 with a final volume added in 1753), which has elements in common with Samuel Johnson's later work, Rasselas (1759); The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy (1749) ), written especially for a young female audience to show that the path to virtue can be found through control of emotional excess, cultivation of benevolence, and submission to parental wisdom; The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754), which she wrote in collaboration with Jane Collier; The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1757); The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759); and The History of Ophelia (1760). In addition, her pamphlet, Remarks on Clarissa (1749), place her as one of the more noteworthy among mid-eighteenth century women literary critics. Her translation of Xenophon was published in 1762.