Thomas Holcroft

EI made revisions to her ten-year-old draft of A Simple Story, basing them on suggestions from the novelist Thomas Holcroft .

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...

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

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 ).

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.

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

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 .

Thomas Holcroft 's Theatrical Recorder included seven plays translated by his daughter Fanny Holcroft from Spanish, German, and Italian.

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...

Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH 's...

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 novel Fortitude and Frailty, 1817, appeared with prefatory Lines to the Memory of the Late Thomas Holcroft.

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

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...