Thomas Holcroft

She dedicated this book to the memory of her father, Thomas 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.

FH 's father Thomas Holcroft , playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and self-made man of letters, died.

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 .

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...

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...

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...

CD 's father was born Jacob Rey , a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...

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...

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

Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .

Their friends included Eliza Fenwick , Helen Maria Williams , Susannah Taylor , Mary Hays , Amelia Opie , Thomas Holcroft , John Thelwall , and other radicals. AP supported Thelwall's local electioneering, and Ann Jebb

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...

EI met Thomas Holcroft , the dramatist and radical social reformer, who was associated with what was later termed the Jacobin movement.

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...