Philip Parkhouse

HC published, with her name, a blank-verse narrative poem entitled The Maid of Arragon; A Tale, and dedicated to her father, Philip Parkhouse .

Included with it were two more poems, one of them on Thomas Chatterton , and a Deprecation, written three years back and dedicated to her father , complaining of harsh treatment by the reviewers...

HC 's father was Philip Parkhouse , a bookseller of scholarly bent, who had been educated for the Church, a town corporator or councillor,an active and outspoken local politician. He was later...

HC owed her education to her father , who had attended Blundell's School in Tiverton (founded in 1604) and whose bookshop stock was no doubt of great use to her. She later wrote that he...

Late in the year of HC 's first major stage success, her father Philip Parkhouse wrote to their patron Lord Harrowby to argue that her literary achievements merited a pension, or else a better position...