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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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wollstonecraft | 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
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Holcroft |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Inchbald | 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... |
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/. |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | 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... |
Employer | Fanny 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Gifford, John, editor. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. Periodical Publications. |
Dedications | Fanny Holcroft | She dedicated this book to the memory of her father, Thomas Holcroft
. |
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