 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".Young George Osborne recites it, eliciting tears from his aunt, in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" (1847-48), p. 504.