James Boaden

After her husband's death (reported Boaden ) they were expected to marry, but they did not. Perhaps Kemble, who was characterised as aloof, never proposed. Or perhaps, although she had many suitors after her husband's...

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...

This novel marks AR 's first big success. It drew widespread critical acclaim. The Critical Review praised it and likened the author to Clara Reeve (while making an issue of the fact that, though...

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...

Garrick thought her letter fine & conceited. The first editor of his correspondence, James Boaden , called her in a note this silly and impudent woman, typically folding together the...

Theatre historian James Boaden relates an anecdote about how once a female colleague known for sexual intrigues wished to share Wells's dressing-room; Wells thought Topham would not like this association, and moved out to take...

It had been advertised in the London Chronicle on 22-4 April. The day after it appeared AR 's previous publisher, Hookham , issued a whole clutch of related works: new editions of her first...

James Boaden published Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald; the Athenæum review noted that EI wrote her own memoirs, but unfortunately, for some scruple of conscience or delicacy of feeling . . . destroyed them.

Several known plays by EI were never published. All on a Summer's Day, 1787 (about a couple ill-matched in age), and The Hue and Cry, 1791, are known only from the copies provided...