Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald : including her familiar correspondence with the most distinguished persons of her time
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Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald : including her familiar correspondence with the most distinguished persons of her time
（Cambridge library collection, . British and Irish history,
Cambridge University Press, 2013
- v. 1 : pbk
- v. 2 : pbk
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Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald : including her familiar correspondence with the most distinguished persons of her time. To which are added The massacre, and A case of conscience; now first published from her autograph copies
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Reprint. Originally published: London : R. Bentley, 1833
"This digitally printed version 2013" -- T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108064972
Description
Although she overcame a stammer to fulfil her acting ambitions, Elizabeth Simpson (1753-1821), known as Mrs Inchbald after her marriage in 1772, was more acclaimed for her good looks than her performances. Her husband was an actor, and she formed strong friendships with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble, but her greatest impact was as a playwright, novelist, editor and critic. Despite her decision to destroy a four-volume autobiography, her extensive surviving journals and letters allowed James Boaden (1762-1839) to publish this two-volume work in 1833. Having produced biographies of Siddons, Kemble and Dorothy Jordan (which are also reissued in this series), Boaden presents here an informed account of this remarkable woman's personal, theatrical and literary life. Volume 1 covers the period from her birth to 1796 and includes as an appendix The Massacre (1792), a suppressed historical drama about the persecution of Huguenots in 1572.
Table of Contents
- Advertisement
- 1. Importance of biography
- 2. Juvenile indiscretions
- 3. Revisits Standingfield
- 4. St Valleri
- 5. Peculiar feelings of actors
- 6. Year 1780
- 7. First appears in Bellario
- 8. Exercises herself on the pantomime as usual
- 9. Kemble takes her lodgings
- 10. The Morells
- 11. Fate of the Hue and Cry
- 12. The Simple Story
- 13. Publishes her novel
- 14. Splendid success
- 15. Begins a new comedy
- Appendix.
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781108064989
Description
Although she overcame a stammer to fulfil her acting ambitions, Elizabeth Simpson (1753-1821), known as Mrs Inchbald after her marriage in 1772, was more acclaimed for her good looks than her performances. Her husband was an actor, and she formed strong friendships with Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble, but her greatest impact was as a playwright, novelist, editor and critic. Despite her decision to destroy a four-volume autobiography, her extensive surviving journals and letters allowed James Boaden (1762-1839) to publish this two-volume work in 1833. Having produced biographies of Siddons, Kemble and Dorothy Jordan (which are also reissued in this series), Boaden presents here an informed account of this remarkable woman's personal, theatrical and literary life. Volume 2 covers the period from 1796 until her death. It includes as an appendix A Case of Conscience (1800), a play that had not been previously performed or published.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Priory at Stanmore again
- 2. The year 1798 commences with illness
- 3. The year of visits, 1801
- 4. The bidders for her memoirs
- 5. Invited to write in The Artist
- 6. Refuses to criticise
- 7. Sells again her two novels
- 8. Administers to her confessor's comforts
- 9. Her change of lodging
- 10. Mrs Inchbald's losses
- 11. Her Septembers since she married
- 12. Letters to her executrix
- Appendix
- Additional letters.
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