was freely adapted in 1835 by John G. Millingen under the title of "The Miser’s Daughter". Two further adaptations of the French play were to follow later: "Love and Avarice" (1859) by J. V. Bridgeman (1819-89), and John Palgrave Simpson's "Daddy Hardacre" in 1857. Meanwhile, William Harrison Ainsworth's period novel "The Miser's Daughter" (first serialised in 1842) was spawning a fresh crop of dramas of that title. Two were played in 1842 and a further adaptation called "Hilda" in 1872. A similarly titled play was the five-act comedy partially in verse, "The Miser's Daughter or The Lover's Curse" of 1839, a schoolboy indiscretion of the future controversial churchman, Rev.John Purchas. And on the other side of the Atlantic there was a stage production of "Julietta Gordini:The Miser's Daughter", a verse play in five acts, which claimed to derive its plot 'from an Italian story'.