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From just such another farmhouse as that on which our bright benevolent woman even in the dumps was gazing wistfully, issued Caroline Inchbald, a beauty, and a generous, virtuous woman under great temptations, a friend and rival on equal terms with Amelia Opie. But hark! an arrival in the next room: fresh guests country people of consequence, for they were ushered in by Mrs.
Inchbald, the most fearless of actresses, was once entirely overcome by timidity on assuming a character in a masquerade. On a larger scale, the mere want of habitual exposure to danger will often cause a whole population to be charged with greater cowardice than really belongs to them.
Inchbald, who used to walk up and down Sackville Street in order that she might see Dr. Warren's light in his window? Foscolo was a believer in the love; Sismondi admits it; and Rosini, the editor of the latest edition of the poet's works, is passionate for it.
Inchbald, who numbered them among her most intimate friends, that they were both 'mystics, and 'could say almost as much of the unintelligible world as of this. Hazlitt describes the painter as a Swedenborgian, a believer in animal magnetism professing to possess the faculty of second sight, crediting whatever is incredible.
After seventeen years on the stage, without attaining conspicuous success, Mrs. Inchbald retired, and devoted herself to the writing of novels and plays and the collection of theatrical literature. Her first novel, written in 1791, was "A Simple Story." With "Nature and Art," a tale written later, it has kept a place among the fiction that is reprinted for successive generations.
Inchbald perhaps to be added. The first began considerably before the outbreak of the actual French Revolution and shows the influence of its causes: the others were directly influenced by itself. One of the most remarkable of English novel-writers who are not absolute successes, and one who, though less completely obscured by Fortune than some, has never had quite his due, is Robert Bage.
Inchbald and Mrs. Opie, Maria Edgeworth and Mrs. Barbauld, at the end of the last and beginning of this century, were fêted and praised as seldom falls to the lot of their successors of the present generation. But, despite this fact, they were not quite sure that they were keeping within the limits of feminine modesty by publishing their writings.
Yet, in her ability to excite the interest and to move the feelings of her reader, Mrs. Inchbald met with great success. Her novels are of the pathetic order, and appeal to the sympathies with a sometimes powerful effect. Maria Edgeworth was deeply moved by the "Simple Story."
Inchbald, in gowns "always becoming, and very seldom worth so much as eight-pence," as one of her admirers described them, was surrounded as soon as she entered a crowded room, even when powdered and elegantly attired ladies of fashion were deserted.
Fitzgerald remarks, many subjects such as the lives of Macklin and Quin, of Mrs. Inchbald and Mrs. Jordan omitted which might fairly have claimed a place, and which would furnish ample matter for a second and equally agreeable volume. Democracy and Monarchy in France from the Inception of the Great Revolution to the Overthrow of the Second Empire.
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