Mrs. Inchbald

Mrs. Inchbald
Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and playwright known for her contributions to the literary and theatrical world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Her novels "A Simple Story" (1791) and "Nature and Art" (1796) were well-received, exploring themes of morality, gender, and class. She was also a successful playwright, with works like "Such Things Are" and "Everyone Has His Fault" gaining popularity on the London stage. Despite facing personal challenges, including a difficult marriage and financial struggles, Inchbald's wit and social commentary secured her lasting influence in literature.

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REMARKS. This tragedy has been so rapturously applauded on the stage, and so severely criticised in the closet, that it is a task of peculiar difficulty to speak either of its beauties or its defects, with any degree of certainty. To conciliate both the auditor and the reader, both the favourable and the unfavourable critic, the "Grecian Daughter" demands a set of Remarks for each side of the... more...

INTRODUCTION Elizabeth Simpson was born on the 15th of October, 1753, one of the eight children of a poor farmer, at Standingfield, near Bury St. Edmunds.  Five of the children were girls, who were all gifted with personal beauty.  The family was Roman Catholic.  The mother had a delight in visits to the Bury Theatre, and took, when she could, her children to the play.  One of her sons became an... more...

A Simple Story is one of those books which, for some reason or other, have failed to come down to us, as they deserved, along the current of time, but have drifted into a literary backwater where only the professional critic or the curious discoverer can find them out. "The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy;" and nowhere more blindly than in the republic of letters. If we were... more...