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When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she finds her own unorthodox nature cannot conform to a marriage where her husband continues to be a stern moral guide. With a sureness of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth I...

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Excerpt from The British Theatre, or a Collection of Plays, Which Are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Haymarket, and Lyceum, Vol. 6 of 20: Printed, Under the Authority of the Managers, From the Prompt Books, With Biographical and Critical RemarksAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

Yet there was a sentence in the letter, that, worse than all the tenderness left out, wounded her sensibility, and she could not read the line, GRATITUDE FOR ALL THE FAVOURS CONFERRED ON ME, without turning pale with horror, then kindling with indignation at the commonplace thanks, which insultingly reminded her of her innocence given in exchange for unmeaning acknowledgments.

Commands a central place in the history of the English Jacobin novel. Published in 1796, the story explores the opposition between the upbringing and actions of Henry Norwynne, an unspoiled 'child of nature' who has been reared without books on an African island, and the corrupt conduct of his aristocratic older cousin, William.

Excerpt from Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Her Familiar Correspondence With the Most Distinguished Persons of Her Time Juvenile indiscretions - Her secret arrival in London - Adven tures - Two Inns - Reddish - King Her brother Slender meets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important histori...

Excerpt from The British Theatre, or a Collection of Plays, Vol. 11 of 25: Which Are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket, Busy Body, Wonder, Bold Stroke for a Wife, George Barnwell, Fatal Curiosity When a man follows the occupation of a woman, or a woman the employment of a man, they are both unpleasing characters, if they are guided in their pur suits by choice. But, if necessity has ruled their desti nies, ...

Excerpt from The Modern Theatre, Vol. 7 of 10: A Collection of Successful Modern Plays, as Acted at the Theatres Royal, London, I'll Tell You What, Next Door Neighbours, Wise Man of the East, Percy, Trip to ScarboroughSir Geo. Dear uncle, I should certainly have asked your opinion and my uncle Anthony's on the subject, but your absence put it out of my power, and it was universally believed the ship in which you sailed was lost.About the Publi...

Excerpt from A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces, Vol. 4 of 7: Which Are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Hay-Market, All the World's a Stage, Lying Valet, the Citizen, Three Weeks After Marriage, Catherine and Petruchio, Padlock, Miss. In Her Teens, the Quaker, the GuardianDig. Will nobody stop this fellow's mouth why, you blackhead, you have not sense enough to be mad you'd play the fool well enough, but h...

The second novel, first published in 1794, by Elizabeth Inchbald, née Simpson (1753-1821) who was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist. Between 1784 and 1805 she had nineteen of her comedies, sentimental dramas, and farces (many of which were translations from the French) performed at London theatres. Eighteen of her plays were published, though she wrote several more, the exact number is in dispute though most recent commentators claim...

Yet there was a sentence in the letter, that, worse than all the tenderness left out, wounded her sensibility, and she could not read the line, GRATITUDE FOR ALL THE FAVOURS CONFERRED ON ME, without turning pale with horror, then kindling with indignation at the commonplace thanks, which insultingly reminded her of her innocence given in exchange for unmeaning acknowledgments.

Elizabeth Inchbald, nee Simpson (1753-1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist. At the age of 19 she went to London in order to act. In 1772 she agreed to marry the actor Joseph Inchbald (1735-1779). For four years the couple toured Scotland with West Digges's theatre company, a demanding life. After Joseph Inchbald's death in 1779, she continued to act for several years, in Dublin, London, and elsewhere. Between 1784 and 1805 she...

Lover's Vows (1798) was featured by Jane Austen in her novel Mansfield Park, is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780). Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex before marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an En...

Elizabeth Inchbald, nee Simpson (1753-1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist. At the age of 19 she went to London in order to act. In 1772 she agreed to marry the actor Joseph Inchbald (1735-1779). For four years the couple toured Scotland with West Digges's theatre company, a demanding life. After Joseph Inchbald's death in 1779, she continued to act for several years, in Dublin, London, and elsewhere. Between 1784 and 1805 she...

First published 1791. This edition has an introduction by G L Strachey.

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