Shortly before her death in 1821, Elizabeth Inchbald, on the advice of her confessor, burned the memoirs on which she had been working since at least 1791. Their loss--particularly to historians of th...
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Elizabeth Inchbald infused a vigor into some of the stock characters and motifs of sentimental comedy that made them last until the time of T. W. Robertson in the 1860s. A dramatist with an actress's ...
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