Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Fanny Holcroft | She dedicated this book to the memory of her father, Thomas Holcroft
. |
Employer | Fanny Holcroft | During his last years FH
had worked as her father
's amanuensis. She became sufficiently identified with him in the public mind to share in the abuse heaped on him by, for instance, The Anti-Jacobin. Gifford, John, editor. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. Periodical Publications. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | Both Holcroft
(who, four times married and widowed, was now fresh from being arrested for treason and discharged) and Godwin
(while not yet a lover of Wollstonecraft) took a romantic or flirtatious as well as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Dacre | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Inchbald | After her husband's death (reported Boaden
) they were expected to marry, but they did not. Perhaps Kemble, who was characterised as aloof, never proposed. Or perhaps, although she had many suitors after her husband's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fenwick | The date of EF
's marriage to John Fenwick
is not known, though it seems that she was young at the time, still in her teens. He was nine years older, like her the child... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Holcroft | FH
's father Thomas Holcroft
, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and self-made man of letters, died. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wollstonecraft | Four months after her return to England MW
received an impassioned written proposal of marriage, which may perhaps have come from the currently widowed Thomas Holcroft
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Holcroft |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Holcroft | FH
's father, Thomas Holcroft
, had lived an itinerant life as a boy while his parents were pedlars, and had then worked as a lad in a racing stable, living and sleeping with the... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin
, she met Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Wollstonecraft
(who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
met Thomas Holcroft
, the dramatist and radical social reformer, who was associated with what was later termed the Jacobin movement. Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxxiii. xxxi Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 41-2 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | This was her most formative and most famous friendship. She had approached Wollstonecraft after the latter published Vindication of the Rights of Woman early that same year. Wollstonecraft proved a valuable professional mentor. Another relationship... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | On her return to London MW
sought out the publisher Joseph Johnson
, of 72, St Paul's Churchyard, who became her patron, helper, and friend. He introduced her to Sarah Trimmer
, Anna Letitia Barbauld |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988. 11 |
Timeline
7 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft, radical or Jacobin novelist...
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7 February 1792
Thomas Holcroft
, radical or Jacobin novelist and dramatist of working-class origins (father of another future writer, Fanny Holcroft
) published his novel Anna St Ives.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
18 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft's play The Road to Ruin,...
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18 February 1792
Thomas Holcroft
's play The Road to Ruin, which Elizabeth Inchbald
ranked among the most successful of modern plays, had its premiere.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
xxvii-xxviii
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 1428
14 June 1792: Robert Bage anonymously published his radical...
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14 June 1792
Robert Bage
anonymously published his radical novel Man As He Is, in which a young baronet learns to rise above the vices of his class.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 562
March 1793: Thomas Holcroft, in his Monthly review of...
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March 1793
Thomas Holcroft
, in his Monthly review of Robert Bage
's recent Man As He Is, made disparaging remarks about young ladies who write novels, as well as those who read them; he may...
November 1802: Thomas Holcroft's "A Tale of Mystery", produced...
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November 1802
Thomas Holcroft
's "A Tale of Mystery", produced at Covent Garden
, formally introduced melodrama to the English stage.
Emeljanow, Victor. Victorian Popular Dramatists. Twayne, 1987.
2-3
By May 1816: William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded,...
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By May 1816
William Hazlitt
edited, completed, expanded, and published The Life of Thomas Holcroft, which had been left unfinished when the radical Thomas Holcroft
died.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 3 (1816): 434-51
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
xv
Texts
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft. Oxford University Press, 1926.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. The Life of Thomas Holcroft. Editor Colby, Elbridge, Constable, 1925, 2 vols.
Holcroft, Thomas. The Theatrical Recorder. Burt Franklin, 1968, 2 vols.