Thomas Holcroft

FH 's novel Fortitude and Frailty, 1817, appeared with prefatory Lines to the Memory of the Late Thomas Holcroft.

Richard Lovell Edgeworth wrote a preface, dating it February. He was seriously annoyed when Johnson commissioned Thomas Holcroft to write mottoes for these tales. Johnson, however, paid three hundred pounds for it.

An English translation by Thomas Holcroft was published at both London and Dublin in 1786. The Juvenile Theatre, 1807, selects mostly from this, with one play from Genlis's non-biblical The Theatre of Education.

Thomas Holcroft translated this work as Tales of the Castle; or, Stories of Instruction and Delight, published in London by February 1785. He deliberately took liberties with the text which rendered...

EI made revisions to her ten-year-old draft of A Simple Story, basing them on suggestions from the novelist Thomas Holcroft .

MTK and her future husband were not, as is sometimes said, joint authors of Deaf and Dumb, a musical drama of the 1800-1 season: it was a French piece adapted by Thomas Holcroft ...

In an AdvertisementEM says she has changed her original fairly extensively in order to make it more probable. Her reason for undertaking the project was to show the reading public what was the basis...

Thomas Holcroft 's Theatrical Recorder included seven plays translated by his daughter Fanny Holcroft from Spanish, German, and Italian.

Her hero, Archibald Campbel [sic], a brave and virtuous but hot-headed man, might have been modelled on Thomas Holcroft . Having been rejected by the naive and sentimental heroine, Eleonor [sic] Fairfax, he flings himself...

FH lived abroad in Europe during these years with her family, because of the difficulty of the growing debts at home which resulted from the political opprobrium in which her father was held.

FH published in the Monthly Magazine an abolitionist poem, The Negro (whose protagonist, at the point of death, comes close to cursing the Christian race). It may, however, be chiefly by her father .

Amelia Alderson (later AO ) attended the treason trials at the Old Bailey of Horne Tooke and Thomas Holcroft (friends of her family) and other would-be reformers; it was here that she got to know...

Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH 's...

The Critical Review welcomed the first volume, but said this young genius was worthy of, or needed, further cultivation. When volume two rapidly followed, the journal felt that it was premature. It complained that the...

The Italian won for AR the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias , scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto to honour her in the same place...