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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...

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...