Thomas Percy

Percy vigorously supported her in the conservative British Critic.

JW 's preface invokes Shakespeare , Virgil , Homer , and Sir Walter Scott (she later adds Thomas Percy ) as more acceptable exemplars for romance than either the French romances (implicitly those of Madeleine de Scudéry

According to Thomas Percy , AW was about twenty when her sight began to be affected by cataracts, though at this date she was still able to read and to sew. She became totally blind...

AW corresponded with Ann Percy , who, with her husband, the clergyman and ballad-collector Thomas Percy , was a good friend. She visited their home in 1764. Other friends, perhaps her closest, were single women...