The Original Female Husband

This book functionally invented the term “female husband” for an assigned-female person who marries (formally or otherwise) a woman while presenting as male. It’s possible (though speculative) that the book also encouraged pop culture fascination with the phenomenon, though I suspect that the fascination would have existed even if the label had never been created.

As discussed at length in Baker 1959 (being posted simultaneously), the vast majority of Fielding’s book is total fiction, which makes it an interesting sequel to the series on the General History.