Nature and Art: A Tale of the Natural Man
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Two brothers, two sons: one raised in London society, one on an island among people with no laws at all — and the natural man, brought home, asks the questions polite England cannot answer. Inchbald ran away from a Suffolk farm at eighteen to go on the stage, despite a stammer that never left her, and acted seventeen years before writing; this 1796 novel is a Jacobin argument in the form of a fable, and the courtroom scene at the end is savage. Fifty-seven plates after Hogarth and Gainsborough carry the novel's argument in paint, setting its questions of nature and artifice among the faces and assemblies of eighteenth-century England.
Two brothers, two sons: one raised in London society, one on an island among people with no laws at all — and the natural man, brought home, asks the questions polite England cannot answer. Inchbald ran away from a Suffolk farm at eighteen to go on the stage, despite a stammer that never left her...
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Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and playwright. She worked in London's theatrical world before writing the novel Nature and Art (1796).
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and playwright. She worked in London's theatrical world before writing the novel Nature and Art (1796).
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