Omitting Lady G race: The Provok'd Husband in F rances B urney's Camilla and The Wanderer

One of the most prominent scenes in F rances B urney's The Wanderer (1814) is the amateur theatrical performance of Sir J ohn V anbrugh and C olley C ibber's The Provok'd Husband (1728). This episode was recycled from a discarded fragment, which has not been previously discussed, from B urney's Camilla (1796). Ostensibly B urney uses these scenes to comment on the late eighteenth‐century private theatrical vogue, but her use of The Prokov'd Husband in both novels highlights her editorial practice as a writer of long fiction and, more significantly, her failure to espouse theories of realistic characterisation during the last years of her literary career.