Pix wrote in her foreword, that her play was adapted from Le Chevalier a la Mode by Florent Carton Dancourt (1687).
Comparing the two led McLaren to see more clearly Pix's "comic gifts and her dramatic and moral concerns.”[1] Elisabeth Heard, on the other hand, states that recent research has concluded that the play's author is unknown.
Lady Landsworth is an aristocrat and was married to a dissolute man who severely limited her freedom to leave the house.
[3] The play is unusual for its time because it assigns an equal amount of spoken lines to men and women.
[2] Jo Davies directed a production at The Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2016;[5] the Royal Shakespeare Company staged a retitled version called The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich in 2018.