Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter ix. tcemble takes her lodgings--The spot described--Recently surveyed--The Whitfields and she quarrel--Twiss, the mutual friend, tries to reconcile them--A lodging taken in Hart Street--At length has a farce accepted by Colman--Was induced to act in it--Was at the reading, not known to be the writer--The 'Mogul Tale' brings her 100 guineas--Stammers on the first night of it--Letters from Twiss and Kemble--Lovers attracted by the honey of success--Reminds Colman that he has a comedy also in his hands--Now then he reads it, admires it, christens it 'I'll tell you what'--Writes both Prologue and Epilogue--Its original cast--Letters from Mr. Twiss of great importance--Draft for 300--Buys into the Funds--" Appearance is against them "--Royal command--Liberal as she was covetous. Mrs. Inchbald lodged at this time in a place sufficiently retired, at the house of a Mrs. Smith, No. 2, Leicester Court, Castle Street, Leicester Fields. The entrance we well remember was a wooden gate, which closed in a paved court-yard, that seemed hardly to need so idle a defence; but it was cheap and silent, and when she left town, Kemble, that his studies might be uninterrupted, (as there they must be, ) wrote to her that "her late apartment now called him lord and master." Like Bobadil at poor Cobb's, " he found the cabin was convenient;" and the first letter we had from him was dated from this chosen spot. From his gate, we are sure the master of the premises must have been a carpenter. The house, too, had a front of planks, laid over one another to bear off rain, and was painted of a neat-enough stone colour. It may be thought entitled to this notice; for assuredly, two such tenants as the writer of the 'Simple Story, ' and the performer of..."
