During the first few years of the twenty-first century, scholarly interest in the life and works of Elizabeth Inchbald has risen to new heights. One of the most significant indicators of that interest came in 2003 with the publication of I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald. In this impressive biography, Annibel Jenkins crafts Inchbald's persona as an independent-minded thinker – a woman who turned to writing, not as an art, but as a means of supporting herself. Two years later, Broadview Press released a new edition of Inchbald's second novel, Nature and Art (1796), and in another two years, the same press published Inchbald's first novel, A Simple Story (1791). Both editions are carefully edited and offer substantial introductions along with accompanying contextual materials. The year 2007 also saw the publication of the three-volume edition of The Diaries of Elizabeth Inchbald by Pickering & Chatto. This edition collects all eleven known surviving Inchbald diaries, annotated with introductory material and explanatory notes. Two years later in 2009, Amy Garnai published Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald, a book that devotes two chapters to Inchbald's life and work. And shortly thereafter, Pickering & Chatto released Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance, a monograph that links Inchbald's work in transatlantic terms with that of the well-known American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.