 Understandably so as the play possesses a sort of Fenian hero, and the United States is credited as the country where the Fenian movement was first initiated.It was met with equal success in its London production (1875) at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in a production staged by F. B. Chatterton.The original production and cast is praised by the protagonist, Newland Archer, in Edith Wharton's 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" which is set in 1870s New York.