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Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald: Volume 1 James Boaden

Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald: Volume 1 By James Boaden

Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald: Volume 1 by James Boaden


Summary

Known as Mrs Inchbald after her marriage in 1772, Elizabeth Simpson (1753-1821) won greater acclaim as a playwright and novelist than as an actress. Including the texts of two previously unpublished plays, this two-volume 1833 biography by James Boaden (1762-1839) explores her lively personal, theatrical and literary life.

Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald: Volume 1 Summary

Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald: Volume 1: Including her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of her Time by James Boaden

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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NLS9781108064972
9781108064972
1108064973
Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald: Volume 1: Including her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of her Time by James Boaden
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2013-09-05
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