Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux.
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Literary responses | Ann Yearsley | Reviewing the first two volumes, the Critical Review was more than a little patronising, evidently on grounds of class. It observed from details of costume and so forth that AY
had actually studied the period... |
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... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Inchbald | Friends advised EI
to destroy her satire, but she was loth to do so. The question at issue was whether the authorities would recognise the king in the guise she had given him. First George Hardinge |
Leisure and Society | Anna Margaretta Larpent | In a typical day, AML
read Tom Paine
to herself, and Sarah Trimmer
and some Latin with her sons. She went to see the kangaroo, the Polygraphic Exhibition, and Thomas Holcroft
's Road to Ruin. Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux. 56 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke
's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
). Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 3: 95 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | The novel which emerged from so much interference during composition is naive, exaggerated, and badly structured, but highly unusual, with great intensity in its writing. Its title-page quotes Thomas Holcroft
, and its epigraphs to... |
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 | Anne Plumptre | 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 |
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 | 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 | 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, 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. 41-2 |
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. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. 11 |
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... |
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... |
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