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See also:INCHBALD, MRS See also:ELIZABETH (1753-1821) , See also:English novelist, playwright and actress, was See also:horn on the 15th of See also:October 1753 at Standingfield, See also:Suffolk, the daughter of See also:John See also:Simpson, a See also:farmer. Her See also:father died when she was eight years old. She and her sisters never enjoyed the advantages of school or of any See also:regular supervision in their studies, but they seem to have acquired refined and See also:literary tastes at an See also:early See also:age. Ambitious to become an actress, a career for which an impediment in her speech hardly seemed to qualify her, she applied in vain for an engagement; and finally, in 1772, she abruptly See also:left See also:home to seek her See also:fortune in See also:London. Here she married See also:Joseph Inchbald (d. 1779), an actor, and on the 4th of See also:September made her debut in See also:Bristol as Cordelia, to his See also:Lear. For several years she continued to See also:act with him in the provinces. Her roles included See also:Anne See also:Boleyn, Jane See also:Shore, Calista, Calpurnia, See also:Lady Anne in See also:Richard III., Lady See also:Percy, Lady Elizabeth See also:Grey, Fanny in
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The Clandestine See also:Marriage, Desdemona, See also:Aspasia in Tamerlane, Juliet and Imogen; but notwithstanding her See also:great beauty and her natural aptitude for acting, her inability to acquire rapid and easy utterance prevented her from attaining to more than very moderate success. After the See also:death of her See also:husband she continued for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time on the See also:stage; making her first London See also:appearance at Covent See also:Garden as Bellario in Philaster on the 3rd of October 1780. Her success, however, as an author led her to retire in 1789. She died at See also:Kensington See also:House on the 1st of See also:August 1821.
Mrs. Inchbald wrote or adapted nineteen plays, and some of them, especially Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are (1797), were for a time very successful. Among the others may be mentioned I'll tell you What (translated into See also:German, See also:Leipzig, 1998); Such Things Are (1788); The Married See also:Man; The See also:Wedding See also:Day; The Midnight See also:Hour; Everyone has his See also:Fault; and See also:Lover's Vows. She also edited a collection of the See also:British See also:Theatre, with See also:biographical and See also:critical remarks (25 vols., 18o6–1809); a Collection of Farces (7 vols., 1809); and The See also:Modern Theatre (to vols., 1809). Her fame, however, rests chiefly on her two novels: A See also:Simple See also:Story (1791), and Nature and See also:Art (1796). These See also:works possess many See also:minor faults and inaccuracies, but on the whole their See also:style is easy, natural and graceful; and if they are tainted in some degree by a morbid and exaggerated sentiment, and display none of that See also:faculty of creation possessed by the best writers of fiction, the pathetic situations, and the deep and pure feeling pervading them, secured for them a wide popularity.
Mrs Inchbald destroyed an autobiography for which she had been offered £See also:I000 by See also:Phillips the publisher; but her See also:Memoirs, compiled by J. Boaden, chiefly from her private See also:journal, appeared in 1833 in two volumes. An interesting See also:account of Mrs Inchbald is contained in Records of a Girlhood, by Frances See also:Ann See also:Kemble (1878). Her portrait was painted by See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence.
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