TY - BOOK ID - 78071321 TI - I'll tell you what PY - 2015 SN - 0813159644 9780813159645 1322597510 9781322597515 0813122368 9780813122366 0813129184 PB - Lexington The University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Actors KW - Theater critics KW - Authors, English KW - Women and literature KW - Drama critics KW - Critics KW - History KW - Inchbald, KW - Inchbald, Elizabeth Simpson, KW - Inkhbalʹd, KW - Inchbald, Elizabeth, KW - Simpson, Elizabeth, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071321 AB - Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753--1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century -- an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a beautiful, independent woman, Inchbald was much involved in the theatrical, literary, and publishing life of London.Elizabeth Simpson ran away from home at age eighteen to seek fame as an actress in London and quickly married Joseph Inchbald, an actor twice her age. They toured the stage together until his sudden death in 1779. She made her London sta ER -