Inchbald, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. A Simple Story, edited by Jane Spencer and Joyce Marjorie Sanxter Tompkins, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. vii - xxxiii.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 41-2 |
| 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... |
| 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, 1819, 3 vols. 3: 95 |
| 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, 1997. 56 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian won for AR
the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias
, scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto
to honour her in the same place... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Porter | The Critical Review welcomed the first volume, but said this young genius was worthy of, or needed, further cultivation. When volume two rapidly followed, the journal felt that it was premature. It complained that the... |
| Occupation | Fanny Holcroft | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, 1997–1998, 2 vols. 2:91-2, 271 |
| 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/. |
| 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... |
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