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Elizabeth Inchbald
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Standard Name: Inchbald, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Simpson
Married Name: Elizabeth Inchbald
Pseudonym: Mrs Woodley
Nickname: Mrs Perfection
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was a diarist from her teens. Before and after her debut on as an actress on the London stage in 1780, she considered writing as a way to make a living. Before she had made any headway getting her first novel accepted, she became a prolific dramatist: she wrote or translated twenty-one plays (about half of them adaptations). Three major theatrical editing projects appeared under her name. In the early twenty-first century her reputation stands high both as novelist and dramatist.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 1: 133, 152 |
| Publishing | Susanna Centlivre | It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols. 1 (no. 1): 4 |
| Publishing | Ann Radcliffe | |
| Publishing | Catherine Hutton | |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | She received rave reviews for this first appearance, as Mrs Cadwallader in The Author (a burlesque portrayal of a woman writer). Later that summer she swashbuckled as Macheath in a famous transvestite production of Gay |
| Occupation | Mary Cowden Clarke | This production was put on (in London and later on tour) to raise money for what was later known as the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
, to pay a Shakespeare curator at Stratford. Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Catherine Gore | CG
was the first woman to achieve a professional career as a dramatist since Elizabeth Inchbald
and Hannah Cowley
. She had eleven plays (from one-act farce to high comedy) performed with varying success on... |
| Literary responses | Maria Theresa Kemble | First Faults received a condescending review in the June number of the Monthly Mirror. It was, however, enthusiastically welcomed in a poem by Martha Hale
, who encouraged MTK
to emulate playwright, actress, and... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Reviews, like that in the Athenæum, were good in the main, and singled out the dialogue for praise even if critical of the character drawing, the plotting, or the level of finish. The Times... |
| Literary responses | Hannah Cowley | Anna Seward
included HC
among her seven celebrated Female Poets Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 59 (1789): 292 |
| Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | Reviewers and ordinary readers devoted themselves at once to the game of identifying real-life originals for the novel's more obnoxious representatives of lawyers, clergymen, etc. Sydney Smith
took offence because he (wrongly) believed himself portrayed... |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian won for AR
the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias
, scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto
to honour her in the same place... |
| Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | In the early 1820s BH
seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford
(who believed that nobody else could combine so much... |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | In general JB
was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald
, for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Literary responses | Anne Plumptre | Kotzebue was then all the rage. The Critical Review discussed AP
's The Natural Son in December 1798, explaining the changes made in her version for stage presentation, and considering her biography of Kotzebue. But... |
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