The Trenchard family of Trenchard Manor are in financial trouble when their rough-mannered American relative Asa Trenchard arrives from Vermont to claim an inheritance. Asa’s homespun bluntness collides with the foppish Lord Dundreary, scheming servants and fortune-hunters, and wins the heart of a dairymaid.
The hit comedy remembered as the play Lincoln was watching at Ford’s Theatre in 1865. Download the free EPUB.