Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Dacre | |
Textual Production | Maria Edgeworth | 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. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 188 Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 490, 492 |
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... |
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 |
Textual Production | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Thomas Holcroft
translated this work as Tales of the Castle; or, Stories of Instruction and Delight, published in London by February 1785. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 59 (1784): 99 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Hamilton | Again EH
takes the radicals as her target. The phrase modern philosophers was in common use: the Gentleman's Magazine had turned it on Mary Wollstonecraft in reviewing her first major political work. Yet Hamilton makes... |
Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Thomas Holcroft
turned in for the Monthly Review a notice which engages energetically with the author's virtues and failings. She can think, philosophize, and pourtray character with a certain degree of penetration and energy.But... |
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... |
Residence | Fanny Holcroft | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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/. |
Publishing | Fanny Holcroft | 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
. Ashfield, Andrew, editor. Romantic Women Poets. Manchester University Press. 2:91-2, 271 |
Textual Production | Fanny Holcroft | Thomas Holcroft
's Theatrical Recorder included seven plays translated by his daughter Fanny Holcroft
from Spanish, German, and Italian. Holcroft, Thomas. The Theatrical Recorder. Burt Franklin. |
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... |
Occupation | Fanny Holcroft | 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... |