{"product_id":"memoirs-of-mrs-inchbald-2-volume-set-including-her-familiar-correspondence-with-the-most-distinguished-persons-of-her-time-9781108064996","title":"Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald 2 Volume Set; Including her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of her Time (Multiple-component retail product) 9781108064996","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMemoirs of Mrs Inchbald 2 Volume Set\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIncluding her Familiar Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Persons of her Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in 1833, this two-volume biography explores the lively personal, theatrical and literary life of an eighteenth-century actress and author.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Boaden (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108064996, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMultiple-component retail product, published 5 September 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e788 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 13.8 x 4.5 cm, 0.96 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlthough 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. Including as an appendix The Massacre (1792), a suppressed historical drama, Volume 1 covers the period from her birth to 1796. Volume 2 addresses her final decades and incorporates A Case of Conscience (1800), another previously unpublished play.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVolume 1: Advertisement\u003cbr\u003e 1. Importance of biography\u003cbr\u003e 2. Juvenile indiscretions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Revisits Standingfield\u003cbr\u003e 4. St Valleri\u003cbr\u003e 5. Peculiar feelings of actors\u003cbr\u003e 6. Year 1780\u003cbr\u003e 7. First appears in Bellario\u003cbr\u003e 8. Exercises herself on the pantomime as usual\u003cbr\u003e 9. Kemble takes her lodgings\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Morells\u003cbr\u003e 11. Fate of the Hue and Cry\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Simple Story\u003cbr\u003e 13. Publishes her novel\u003cbr\u003e 14. Splendid success\u003cbr\u003e 15. Begins a new comedy\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Volume 2: 1. The Priory at Stanmore again\u003cbr\u003e 2. The year 1798 commences with illness\u003cbr\u003e 3. The year of visits, 1801\u003cbr\u003e 4. The bidders for her memoirs\u003cbr\u003e 5. Invited to write in The Artist\u003cbr\u003e 6. Refuses to criticise\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sells again her two novels\u003cbr\u003e 8. Administers to her confessor's comforts\u003cbr\u003e 9. Her change of lodging\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mrs Inchbald's losses\u003cbr\u003e 11. Her Septembers since she married\u003cbr\u003e 12. Letters to her executrix\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Additional letters.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266150551832,"sku":"9781108064996","price":65.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108064996i_48d0a05d-2569-4107-b823-3ef18af1eaab.jpg?v=1696748550","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/memoirs-of-mrs-inchbald-2-volume-set-including-her-familiar-correspondence-with-the-most-distinguished-persons-of-her-time-9781108064996","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}