Manuscripts
The Primitive Wife and Modern Maid. Comedy, 5 acts. Elizabeth Inchbald
- Description
No application. Prod. (as Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are) C.G., Mar. 4, 1797.
MS: dated Feb. 10; cast. (Bound with LA 1156.) Comp. Wives as They Were, etc., 1797 (K-D 255): slight differences.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 1155
- Provenance
- Purchased with the Ellesmere collection from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917. The collection was purchased by John Payne Collier. In 1853, he sold it to Francis Egerton, Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857).
- Associated organization
- Great Britain.
