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...predecessor having been Dr. George Clarke Houghton, nephew of the founder. The custom at the Little Church Around the Corner is for the actual rector to name his successor. So knowing Rector Ray's interest in theatrical people and things, Dr. Houghton invited him in 1923 to be vicar, with the right of succession. Three months later Dr. Houghton died...
There is an excellent original drawing by R. C. Lucas of the "Meeting of Thornhill and Olivia" to illustrate "The Vicar of Wakefield," and also a Bollandson drawing for the Vicar of Wakefield. The earliest French translation of "The Deserted Village" and the earliest Dutch translation of "The Vicar of Wakefield" are also of interest...
...VICAR'S DAUGHTER?E. H. Young ?Harcourt Brace...
...Boston firm published The Vicar's Daughter "for we need just such simple, pure and cheerful stories here in America, where even the nursery songs are sensational." The modern tale by the same title (copyright presumably expired) at first leads the reader to suspect the vicar of an illegitimate daughter; then it, too, turns out to be a "pure and cheerful" story...
Edward should never have been a vicar anyway, but had drifted by chance into the calling. He married a charming worldly woman, begat a charming naive daughter, and they all lived together in a charming English house. There middle-aged Cousin Maurice descended upon them in body and in nerves. In love with Edward's wife, he was frenzied by the young woman across the street, whom he firmly but wretchedly believed to be Edward's daughter by another woman. He convinces everybody but Edward of the scandal, and is astonished at the loyalty of Edward's unperturbed modern women...