 Because Home was hounded by the church authorities for "Douglas", he resigned from the Ministry in 1758, and became a layman.It may have been this persecution which drove Home to write for the London stage, in addition to "Douglas"' success there, and stopped him from founding the new Scottish national theatre that some had hoped he would.Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" (1814) and George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" (1860) both allude to the line "My name is Norval".