Person record for Inchbald, Elizabeth

Inchbald, Elizabeth

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 221 times, but was not at home (N) 11 times, and was a venue (V) 175 times.

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Name: Inchbald, Elizabeth
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 15 October 1753
Death Date: 1 August 1821
Occupation: actress
Occupation: playwright
Occupation: novelist

Inchbald was a prominent playwright and novelist of the period. Godwin and she were close friends and literary collaborators before he married Mary Wollstonecraft, when they fell out - with the suggestion that Inchbald took the view of the Twisses, that Wollstonecraft had been presenting herself as a married woman (as Mrs Imlay). Their friendship was gradually repaired after Wollstonecraft's death but never achieved the same level of intimacy.

Godwin refers to Elizabeth interchangeably as ‘Inchbald’ and ‘Mrs Inchbald’, and later as ‘E Inchbald’. There doesn’t appear to be any reason for his switching between these conventions – of the 44 entries in 1795, for example, only two refer to ‘Mrs Inchbald’. Elizabeth’s husband, Joseph, died suddenly in 1779, so there’s little mistake of the ‘Inchbald' entries as referring to him. The only other males seem to be Elizabeth’s stepsons, George and Robert, from Joseph’s previous relationship(s). Given Godwin and Inchbald’s documented level of intimacy, it makes sense that the ‘Inchbalds’ refer to Elizabeth, even though the title is missing and it is unusual for him to drop the 'Mrs'.

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This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name	Number of Meetings
Robinson, George	6
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Godwin)	5
Holcroft, Thomas	5
Chalmers, Alexander	3
Fell, Ralph	3
Lawrence, Sir Thomas	3
Mackintosh, Sir James (of Kyllachy)	3
Parr, Sarah Anne (Wynne)	2
Parr, Catherine Jane	2
Dealtry, Peregrine (Perry)	2
Reveley, Maria (Gisborne) (née James)	2
Kemble, John Philip	2
Moore, C[harles]?	2
Fenwick, John	2
Parr, Samuel	2
Perry, James (Pirie)	2
Alderson, Amelia (Opie)	2
Cooper, Thomas (Abthorpe)	2
Reynolds, Elizabeth (née Mansel)	1
Este, Reverend Charles	1
Smith, Charlotte (née Turner)	1
Planta, Joseph	1
Phillips,	1
Hamilton, Samuel	1
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair)	1
Ellis, Sir Henry	1
Reveley, Willey	1
Marshall, James	1
Lee, Harriet	1
Siddons, Sarah (née Kemble)	1
Kemble, Charles	1
Smirke,	1
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley	1
Curran, John Philpot	1
O'Bryen, Dennis (O'Brien)	1
Fillingham, William	1
Kemble, Priscilla (Brereton) (née Hopkins)	1
Reynolds, Frederick	1
Woodhouse, Robert	1
Marsh, Charles	1
	1
Robinson, Mary (née Darby, Perdita, Polly Derby)	1
Scarlett, James (first Baron Abinger)	1
Moore, Sir Graham	1
Stoddart, John	1
Kentish, John	1
Barry, James	1
Merry, Robert	1
Moore, John	1
Ritson, Joseph	1
Jennings, Mrs (Jennyns)	1
Northcote, James	1
Jardine, Major Alexander	1
Twiss, Francis	1
Sharp, William	1
Knight, Thomas	1
Williams, David	1
Mergez, Georges Nicholas	1
Noel, Francois Joseph Michel	1
Yaniewicz, Felix (Feliks Janiewicz)	1
Taylor, John	1
Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar)	1
Barlow, Joel	1
Stewart, John (Walking Stewart)	1
Constable, Archibald	1

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