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36 Mrs. Boscawen sent five gentlemen with oaken sticks to applaud, but they did not find it necessary to lead the audience, there was universal clapping, and Miss Reynolds wrote, "I congratulate you, myself, and all my sex on the happy and most beautiful exhibition of your play last night."

And yet Hannah never again wrote for the stage; perhaps partly because, when preparing a second edition of The Fatal Falsehood, Caddell told her she was too good a Christian for a dramatic author!