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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Gifford, John, editor. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. Periodical Publications. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
made revisions to her ten-year-old draft of A Simple Story, basing them on suggestions from the novelist Thomas Holcroft
. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 42 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Maria Theresa Kemble | MTK
and her future husband were not, as is sometimes said, joint authors of Deaf and Dumb, a musical drama of the 1800-1 season: it was a French piece adapted by Thomas Holcroft
... |
| 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 | 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... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Meeke | In an AdvertisementEM
says she has changed her original fairly extensively in order to make it more probable. Her reason for undertaking the project was to show the reading public what was the basis... |
| politics | Amelia Opie | Amelia Alderson (later AO
) attended the treason trials at the Old Bailey of Horne Tooke
and Thomas Holcroft
(friends of her family) and other would-be reformers; it was here that she got to know... |
| 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... |
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