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Elizabeth Inchbald

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Stanningfield, Suffolk, England, The United Kingdom

Genre

Fiction, Theater

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Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist.

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Average rating: 3.42 · 1,704 ratings · 247 reviews · 195 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald, Jane Spencer (Introduction), J.M.S. Tompkins (Editor) 3.48 avg rating — 1,067 ratings — published 1791 — 156 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovers' Vows 3.31 avg rating — 437 ratings — published 1798 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nature and Art 3.31 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1796 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Such Things Are: A Play in Five Acts 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1788 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Massacre 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1792 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every One Has His Fault: A Comedy in Five Acts 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1793 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mogul Tale; Or, the Descent of the Balloon. a Farce. as It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley. liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow's Vow 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The British Theatre: Or, a Collection of Plays, Which Are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed Under the Authority of the Managers From the Prompt Books by Elizabeth Inchbald, George Farquhar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.”
― Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story

tags: funny, humorous, lying

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“I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.”
― Elizabeth Inchbald, Lovers' Vows

tags: likelihood, truth

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“The two anonymously published epistolary novels Appearance is against Them (1786) and Emily Herbert: or, Perfidy Punished (1786) were later ascribed to the hand of Elizabeth Inchbald, though there is much dispute now whether she actually wrote them.”
― Elizabeth Inchbald, Elizabeth Inchbald, Complete Works

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June 2023 Old School Classics Poll

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, 1595, 240 pp

68 votes, 31.6%

Medea by Euripides, 432, 59 pp

48 votes, 22.3%

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890, 129 pp

35 votes, 16.3%

Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1846, 167 pp

27 votes, 12.6%

A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald, 1791, 345 pp

17 votes, 7.9%

The Life of a Good-For-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff, 1826, 124 pp

13 votes, 6.0%

Egil's Saga by Anonymous, 1240, 243 pp

7 votes, 3.3%

215 total votes

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