Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Elizabeth Inchbald to Sydney Owenson, 14 May 1805
Turnham Green, May 14,
1805.
Mrs. Inchbald presents her compliments
to Miss Owenson. She is highly flattered by
the contents of the letter she has received from her, and most sincerely
laments that the very same circumstances which a few years ago would have
rendered a further acquaintance with Miss Owenson
extremely desirable, at the present time precludes her from the possibility of
any future introduction. Mrs. Inchbald has the highest
esteem for Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, and she is grieved to her
heart that their remote place of abode should have prevented their knowledge of
her resolution, formed after a short acquaintance (something like patronage)
with a young authoress, never again to
admit the visits of a lady of her own profession.
Robert Hitchcock (d. 1809)
English actor who worked in Dublin from 1781; he published
An
Historical View of the Irish Stage; from the Earliest Period down to 1788, 2 vols
(1788, 1794).
Sarah Hitchcock (1810 fl.)
English actress who married the actor Robert Hitchcock; they spent their later years in
Dublin where they were acquaintances of Lady Morgan.
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
English actress and playwright; author of two popular novels,
A Simple
Story (1791) and
Nature and Art (1796).
Anne Plumptre (1760-1818)
Norwich novelist and translator; she published
A Narrative of a Three
Years' Residence in France (1810).
