A Simple Story (novel)

A Simple Story
Title page of Volume I of the first edition.
AuthorElizabeth Inchbald
Published15 February 1791 (1791-02-15)

A Simple Story is a novel by English author and actress Elizabeth Inchbald. Published in February 1791 as an early example of a "novel of passion", it was very successful and became widely read in England and abroad. It went into a second edition in March 1791. It is still in print today.