Elizabeth Inchbald

Elizabeth Simpson ( * October 15, 1753 in Standing Field, Suffolk; † August 1, 1821 Kensington House, London) was an English actress, writer and playwright.

Life

The daughter of a farmer tried despite a speech impediment to become an actress. At 19, she went to London, where she married the actor Joseph Inchbald and occurred together with it in a variety of plays. Your bad pronunciation led to her despite natural beauty and histrionic talent only moderate success. Your literary success under the name Mistress Inchbald meant that she gave up acting in 1789.

She wrote and translated a total of 19 plays, some of which were extremely successful. In addition, they were provided with a biographical and critical annotations collection of British Plays ( 25 volumes, 1806-1809 ), a collection of farces ( 7 volumes, 1809) and The Modern Theatre ( 10 volumes, 1809). Her novels A Simple Story ( 1791) and Nature and Art (1796 ) were published several times again in the 19th century and enjoyed wide popularity.

An autobiography, for which it had been offered £ 1000, they destroyed; However memoirs published in 1833 on the basis of her diary.

This article is based on a partial text, and edited translation from the Encyclopedia Britannica published as public domain from 1911 (see links).