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, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 188
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
490, 492
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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
...
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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...
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Fanny Holcroft
Thomas Holcroft
's Theatrical Recorder included seven plays translated by his daughter Fanny Holcroft
from Spanish, German, and Italian.
Holcroft, Thomas. The Theatrical Recorder. Burt Franklin, 1968, 2 vols.
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Fanny Holcroft
FH
's novel Fortitude and Frailty, 1817, appeared with prefatory Lines to the Memory of the Late Thomas Holcroft.
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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.
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, 5 series.
59 (1784): 99
He deliberately took liberties with the text which rendered...
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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, 1987.