Thomas Holcroft

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Standard Name: Holcroft, Thomas

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
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...
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
He deliberately took liberties with the text which rendered...
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...
Textual Production Fanny Holcroft
FH 's novel Fortitude and Frailty, 1817, appeared with prefatory Lines to the Memory of the Late Thomas Holcroft.
Dedications Fanny Holcroft
She dedicated this book to the memory of her father, Thomas Holcroft .
Textual Features Fanny Holcroft
Her hero, Archibald Campbel [sic], a brave and virtuous but hot-headed man, might have been modelled on Thomas Holcroft . Having been rejected by the naive and sentimental heroine, Eleonor [sic] Fairfax, he flings himself...
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

Timeline

7 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft, radical or Jacobin novelist...

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7 February 1792

Thomas Holcroft , radical or Jacobin novelist and dramatist of working-class origins (father of another future writer, Fanny Holcroft ) published his novel Anna St Ives.

18 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft's play The Road to Ruin,...

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18 February 1792

Thomas Holcroft 's playThe Road to Ruin, which Elizabeth Inchbald ranked among the most successful of modern plays,
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, p. 1: xv - lv.
xxvii-xxviii
had its premiere.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1428

14 June 1792: Robert Bage anonymously published his radical...

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14 June 1792

Robert Bage anonymously published his radicalnovelMan As He Is, in which a young baronet learns to rise above the vices of his class.

March 1793: Thomas Holcroft, in his Monthly review of...

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March 1793

Thomas Holcroft , in his Monthly review of Robert Bage 's recent Man As He Is, made disparaging remarks about young ladies who write novels, as well as those who read them; he may...

November 1802: Thomas Holcroft's "A Tale of Mystery", produced...

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November 1802

Thomas Holcroft 's "A Tale of Mystery", produced at Covent Garden , formally introduced melodrama to the English stage.

By May 1816: William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded,...

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By May 1816

William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded, and published The Life of Thomas Holcroft, which had been left unfinished when the radical Thomas Holcroft died.

Texts

Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft. Oxford University Press, 1926.
Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. The Life of Thomas Holcroft. Editor Colby, Elbridge, Constable, 1925.
Holcroft, Thomas. The Theatrical Recorder. Burt Franklin, 1968.